The Post's Andrea Peyser stopped by the Greenwich Village High School this weekend, the new private school backed by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, the mag's deputy editor, Aimee Bell, and actor John Leguizamo. Peyser is predictably outraged by the "selective, pretentious and pricey high school" and its proposed…
If your child is in eighth grade, you have lots of money, and you've been having trouble snagging a reservation at the Waverly Inn, you now have another potential path to those $55 bowls of truffled macaroni and cheese. Greenwich Village High School—the private school backed by Vanity Fair editor (and Waverly…
What's the first thing to go when you're an out-of-work Wall Streeter cutting costs from the family budget? Your kids' education, apparently. Enrollment at Manhattan's top private schools is expected to drop dramatically next year as even wealthy parents think twice about shelling out $30,000 (or more) on annual…
Just which elite private school the Obamas pick for daughters Malia and Sasha Obama has turned into "one of the most closely watched contests in Washington," according to The Atlantic. Sidwell, Georgetown Day and Maret are considered the likeliest options, and Sidwell is the frontrunner since it has a history of…
Movie producer Kathryn Tucker (and the estranged wife of indie film mogul John Sloss) mentioned today that a certain senator's wife has been "desperate" for her help getting his/her kids into preschool? Who is it? We're not sure, but we'd love to find out! [NYO]
Have you gotten your toddler into a top pre-K program yet? Have you started touring elementary schools? Have you at least enrolled him/her in French lessons yet? No? Little Max/Emma is never getting into Harvard now! Yep, he's totally doomed and you're to blame. According to the Times, private schools are in a…
"[F]or the first time in memory, inside sources say, no Dalton students will be shipping off to Harvard come fall. And some parents—who shell out $31,200 a year for their kids’ private school education—are pissed." [P6M]
The city's most spoiled high school seniors are getting ready to par-tay tonight. Six single-sex, blue-chip private schools—Collegiate, Browning, Brearley, Hewitt, Spence, and Nightingale-Bamford—will hold their group prom tonight in the fittingly hoity-toity location of the Waldorf-Astoria's Starlight Room. The Sun …
The last we heard from Manhattan girls school Chapin was an alumna's letter that told of Prep for Prep girls beating each other with lacrosse sticks and "several coke addicts, the usual bulimics and anorexics, a pair of twins (one of whom was schizo) overachievers galore, several heiresses to large impressive fortunes…
Yesterday, we heard from an alumna of Manhattan's all-girl Hewitt School whose classmates made her feel poor because she didn't hobnob with the King of Morocco. But, she said, those rich bitches "always wanted to hear about Chapin. That's where all the dirty crazy action was supposed to be." Today, a Chapin alumna…
Kari Brandt, the student body president of the Upper East Side's prestigious all-girls Hewitt School, wants the world to know that "Hewitt students do not characterize popularity by looks, money or experience." But a Hewitt alumna and former student council VP wishes to clarify this point. "I would like to take this…
It's so funny how Mayor Bloomberg banned cell phones in public schools, since didn't his daughters go to, like, Dalton? Or wherever? (We can't remember—do you?) Anyway, it seems that kids in New York private schools these days have moved beyond RAZRs and now carry BlackBerries and the like to school. Apparently they…
The NYT goes deep today and uncovers an insidious new trend: parents who moved to the suburbs for the schools, only to discover that suburban public schools kinda suck, too. At least, they're not up to the high standards of the ridic parents the Times managed to unearth, including one mother who was so horrified…
