Rockland's a real place, people!

/West of the Hudson.
//Not Jersey.
///Only as upstate as Westchester.

How is babby paid for?

That's easily more than I paid for my entire university education. Including alcohol. Class of 93, but still, goddamn that's asinine.

Admissions Director Babby?

Sounds like one of Roger's characters from American Dad

babby krents?

is that what the cool kids are calling it now?

/sounds like Yiddish for constipated grandmother to me
//but what do I know?

You get what you pay for. Send your little chump kids to public school and hope you die before they realize that you farked them with a subpar education.

The most ridiculous thing about this is that in early childhood it is unstructured learning (aka play) which promotes mental development.

That is unless all you want drones who are incapable of creativity or independent thought.

I don't see what a $36000 pre-school can provide that a box of duplo and some supportive adult supervision can't.

They need to do way instain mother who pay $36000 for kindergarten. My pary are with the father. I am truley sorry for your lots.

Temescal: But how is she formed?

Over in 2.

/skrimps?

Let's not forget about those of us East of the Hudson as well...

I want make a nice meal of Babby for woman-husband homecoming from hospial.

ParanoidAgnostic:
I don't see what a $36000 pre-school can provide that a box of duplo and some supportive adult supervision can't.

boogers taste better with caviar on them. fact.

rcf1105: [img33.imageshack.us image 385x383]

Not cool man, just not cool.

/fark if I know how my baby pictures hit the net

I live in NW Alabama making $50K a year. I could never afford that kind of jack for my six kids - one is mine from a previous relationship, two are my ladyfriend's from her first marriage, and three from the marriage she's in the process if ending.
I guess it's all about choices, though.

rcf1105:


"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "

In recent years, Ms. Krents, like many of her counterparts across the city, has been on a mission to diversify Dalton, which has only exacerbated the unfortunate odds and the attendant anxiety. Forty-seven percent of Dalton's 97 kindergartners this year are members of minority groups, a fact that has upset some families in which a parent attended the school and perhaps donated to its endowment as a kind of down payment on that golden ticket.

I've been to many of these schools in New York and Boston and this is extremely apparent in most of these schools: Upper class whites spending 40 grand or more (really, at 37K it's not the most expensive, I was just at one that was over the 40K mark), and minority students generally going for free. You also see this at the University level, especially urban private colleges that often carry better reputations than public schools (for reasons unknown to me). While I'm sure these students are extremely bright, you can't help but notice the wealth redistribution going on in education. The white students will generally be carrying a burden of debt while the minority graduates will be the ones buying homes and building equity. Not to even mention the job prospects.

I still laugh at their complaints of having a "legacy", thought that was supposed to be a disparaging term.

Jamdug!: [awkwardfamilyphotos.com image 640x424]

my gawd that babby looks like Harry Pearce of MI-5

(Sighs) It's shiat like this that makes the rest of us breeders look crazy.

Well, crazier.

For that money, kids must get to eat all the glue they want

LadyHawke: RexTalionis: LadyHawke: Good lord... my entire college tuition did not amount to that, to include food, alcohol, and lodging!

You sound like you're from the past.

Haha... I graduated in 2005!

Not crazy, just way overpaid. I don't give a shiat what they do for a living.

rcf1105

goddamn I LOL'd.

LadyHawke: RexTalionis: LadyHawke: Good lord... my entire college tuition did not amount to that, to include food, alcohol, and lodging!

You sound like you're from the past.

Haha... I graduated in 2005!

Yeah it was a good year to graduate. Federal grants/loans to students got cut and state legislatures made the move to deregulate tuition soon after. My university said it was going to building repair and all their donations were earmarked, but basically they couldn't figure out what a budget is and the hearings for students were a required sham held during normal class hours.

I'd hit it. But I'm old, too.

(sobs)

Le Geno Vert: babby krents?

is that what the cool kids are calling it now?

/sounds like Yiddish for constipated grandmother to me
//but what do I know?

I laughed so hard I coughed..

LadyHawke: Good lord... my entire college tuition did not amount to that, to include food, alcohol, and lodging!

Meh. I'm pretty sure I spent more than that on booze alone. :)

here's the thing.

It's not like us NYers want to pay $36K for kindergarden, but in some cases you are pretty much farming forced to. If you live in the wrong zip code, you're kid ends up in a serious farmed school that hasn't had an English teacher in 4 years. Since there is a high concentration of wealth in Manhattan, many just opt for private schools out of ease and a sense of stability. We don't necessarily want to pay this much, but the alternative is unacceptable. Sure, there are super wealthy families that would never dare send their snowflakes to public school, but costs of private school are driven up by the people on the cusp who'd, given a normal situation, would send their kids to public school. Sadly, education funding has taken a back seat for so long, public school are much more worse in most cases than you'd ever imagine.

Oh nevermind, this is an essentially a Montessori school. These idiots pay that much for a subpar education. You'd be better off sending your kids to public.

They need to do way instain people> who pay $36,000 to Babby. because these $36,000 pay for kindergarten? I am truly sorry for their lots.

RussianPooper: It isn't about the education, it's about having your child in a class that only accepts children of parents who can blow that much on kindergarten.

It's about never seeing a minority until you meet that scholarship kid in High school.

monstera: I live in NW Alabama making $50K a year. I could never afford that kind of jack for my six kids - one is mine from a previous relationship, two are my ladyfriend's from her first marriage, and three from the marriage she's in the process if ending.
I guess it's all about choices, though.

Pick the brightest kid. Sell the rest into sex slavery to educate it. Problem solved?

ChuDogg: Oh nevermind, this is an essentially a Montessori school. These idiots pay that much for a subpar education. You'd be better off sending your kids to public.

Horseshiat. This is prime networking material here. Blaine will remember whose paste he ate when there's an opening for an i-banker in his father's hedge fund.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: This doesn't make me think New Yorkers are nuts. It makes me think people who have kids are nuts. It's a screaming, shiat-and-puke-flinging, social life destroying device that costs ten thousand dollars to maintain every year (not counting college costs), and once you get one you're on the hook for two decades. Every single part of that plan can go fark itself.

To each his own.

I enjoy being a parent.