Posted on 10/08/2007 5:07:00 AM PDT by dennisw
PARENTS say it's harder to get into than Harvard. It's an elite, private Manhattan school that mainly takes kids of the rich, famous, well connected. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick's son went to the Churchill School, and a nephew attends. Artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's son goes there.
Designer Dana Buchman wrote a memoir about her daughter's experience at the school, which caters to bright kids, grades kindergarten through 12, who've been declared learning disabled.
But the thing that separates Churchill from the Daltons and Chapins is the price: It's free.
Rather - you, the taxpayer, fund private education for kids whose parents can afford the freight.
Because 96 percent of Churchill's 405 students get their tuition - $34,000 this year - picked up by the state and city. You buy these kids state-of-the-art facilities, plus class sizes that top out at 12.
Of the 16 students whose parents write a fat check this year, most will ask for a refund - and get it.
I asked Bacon to comment, but he said "no" and hung up.
Schnabel did not return a call.
Top political consultant Hank Sheinkopf, whose daughter attends for free, admitted it stinks rich kids primarily get a gratis private-school education. "What's wrong . . . is that poor kids can't get in," he said. "You have to hire an expensive lawyer. I'd like to see other people have this opportunity, too."
Whistle was blown on Churchill by mom whose son is enrolled - against her wishes. In fighting with her wealthy doctor ex-husband to get their boy into a mainstream school, she handed me the Churchill directory.
It reads like a society register. For every kid on it who lives in Brooklyn, there are perhaps 20 on Park Avenue, in Greenwich Village or on Sutton Place.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I’m not clear on how “rich kids” attend “free”.
Never mind:
“Designer Dana Buchman wrote a memoir about her daughter’s experience at the school, which caters to bright kids, grades kindergarten through 12, who’ve been declared learning disabled.”
“Learning disabled” is the label for the wealthy that attend for “free” if they don’t have the grades?
I would say they get a deep discount from the collective
Any way this will be the next Clinton scandal?
Didnt you know that they are entitled? Another lib scam.
I’m sure that hard working cops, firefighters, and construction workers are more than happy to be paying the tuition for rich superstar Kevin Bacon’s son to attend an exclusive private school.
Boy if ‘I were a taxpayer in NY I would be kicking down some doors this week over this #$ap!!!
The parents file a lawsuit saying this is the only school with a program that will help their ‘special’ child. The school has to provide an appropriate education for all children, including ‘disabled’ ones, so they must pay for this. It is a scam.
Try this guy:
Top political consultant Hank Sheinkopf, whose daughter attends for free, admitted it stinks rich kids primarily get a gratis private-school education. "What's wrong . . . is that poor kids can't get in," he said. "You have to hire an expensive lawyer. I'd like to see other people have this opportunity, too."
Apparently the parents pay the $34,000 up front then claim it back because their child is “disabled”
Thats why regular Americans can’t send their child there...its free after you pay the big price tag...
Buuuuuuuuut you get to pay for their children to go, so stop complaining..think of the children...
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Sounds to me like the parents get an IEP - Individual Education Plan for their “learning disabled” kid. They write into the IEP that their child requires a Free and Appropriate Education (FAPE) and that the only school that can offer FAPE is this Churchill School. And, that they hire the right attornys to make it happen.
The author, Peyser, is generally a liberal twit, but leftwing class-warfare occassionally trumps their love of any government funding no matter how outrageous.
Kevin Bacon is a sponge on the working man.
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