ShyGuyInChicago
March 17th, 2011, 04:18 PM
http://www.fox8.com/sns-rt-lawsuit-preschooln14172744-20110314,0,2053413,full.story
NEW YORK, March 14 (Reuters Life!) - A mother in New York
is suing her 4-year-old daughter's posh preschool, calling it
"one big playroom" that deprived the child of the edge needed
to get into an elite elementary school.
Caught up in New York City's "insanely competitive" nursery
school scene, Nicole Imprescia said she paid $19,000 annual
tuition to York Avenue Preschool and wants it back, according
to her lawsuit that was filed late on Friday.
Her daughter, Lucia, was two years old when she was
enrolled in the Upper East Side neighborhood school.
Imprescia said she heard the school's sales pitch and was
hooked by the promise it would help Lucia on her E.R.B, a
standardized test used for admission to the city's most
competitive public and private kindergartens.
But instead of prepping Lucia to nail the test by the time
she was four, York Avenue "dumped" her with children as young
as two who were learning about shapes and colors, the lawsuit
said.
"Indeed, the school proved not to be a school at all, but
just one big playroom," according to the lawsuit, which claims
Imprescia was deceived and defrauded.
A toddler who takes the wrong first step could ultimately
trip up his or her chances for acceptance into an Ivy League
college and for earning a higher income, it said.
"There is tremendous pressure to choose the right
preschool," it said.
The lawsuit was filed in the weeks after many elite
elementary schools send out their acceptance and rejection
letters.
An attorney for Imprescia, Mathew Paulose, Jr., said the
child was pulled out of the pre-school in October 2010, close
to the start of the school year and, therefore, the full
tuition should be returned.
"It's a case of theft. They promised certain things but it
turned out to be another thing," Paulose said.
An attorney for York Avenue Preschool was not immediately
available for comment.
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and
Jerry Norton)
Personally, I would never spend this much money on pre-school even if I could afford it.
NEW YORK, March 14 (Reuters Life!) - A mother in New York
is suing her 4-year-old daughter's posh preschool, calling it
"one big playroom" that deprived the child of the edge needed
to get into an elite elementary school.
Caught up in New York City's "insanely competitive" nursery
school scene, Nicole Imprescia said she paid $19,000 annual
tuition to York Avenue Preschool and wants it back, according
to her lawsuit that was filed late on Friday.
Her daughter, Lucia, was two years old when she was
enrolled in the Upper East Side neighborhood school.
Imprescia said she heard the school's sales pitch and was
hooked by the promise it would help Lucia on her E.R.B, a
standardized test used for admission to the city's most
competitive public and private kindergartens.
But instead of prepping Lucia to nail the test by the time
she was four, York Avenue "dumped" her with children as young
as two who were learning about shapes and colors, the lawsuit
said.
"Indeed, the school proved not to be a school at all, but
just one big playroom," according to the lawsuit, which claims
Imprescia was deceived and defrauded.
A toddler who takes the wrong first step could ultimately
trip up his or her chances for acceptance into an Ivy League
college and for earning a higher income, it said.
"There is tremendous pressure to choose the right
preschool," it said.
The lawsuit was filed in the weeks after many elite
elementary schools send out their acceptance and rejection
letters.
An attorney for Imprescia, Mathew Paulose, Jr., said the
child was pulled out of the pre-school in October 2010, close
to the start of the school year and, therefore, the full
tuition should be returned.
"It's a case of theft. They promised certain things but it
turned out to be another thing," Paulose said.
An attorney for York Avenue Preschool was not immediately
available for comment.
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and
Jerry Norton)
Personally, I would never spend this much money on pre-school even if I could afford it.