[Alberta's Child]

Legendary radio personality Don Imus -- who lived in Manhattan at the time -- sent his youngest son to one of those elite schools for a year or two. He and his wife then decided to take the kid out of school and educate him at home with private tutors. His explanation that he gave on the air years later was a classic(I'm paraphrasing here, but the description he gave is his exact word)

"We pulled up in front of the school to pick him up one day. I looked around at the other parents and decided right there that I didn't have anything in common with all those @ssholes."

LMAO.

[stonehouse01]

Great story. Peer pressure regarding comparisons of each others children is especially competitive in Manhattan and it takes true guts not to conform. I give Imus lots of credit for opting out completely.

[bgill]

The one private school here is pitiful. Hoity toity parents are paying for good report card grades rather than an education. Kids coming out of it and trying to enroll in public school usually are sent back a grade level.

Remember that sicko woman who posted on her social media how horrified she was that Ivanka’s little Theodore would be in her precious’ kindergarten class next year.