My daughter never went to preschool.
Since I work from home, the decision was made that she would participate in a homeschool program for kindergarteners and enroll in various extra-curricular classes, including soccer, music and cooking, three days a week.
Plus, her dad thinks preschool is nothing but “glorified daycare,” so that nailed the coffin shut on that subject.
Not surprisingly (to me, anyway) there are many parents who share the philosophy. Only most of them don’t go the litigation route to prove their point. But some do. Case in point: New York mom Nicole Imprescia.
The wealthy Manhattan mom is making headlines for filing suit against an Upper East Side preschool she claims is “just one big playroom.”
Imprescia says she spent $19,000 per year for her daughter to attend York Avenue Preschool, and was told that her money would be going to pay for academic instruction that would help her four-year-old “prepare for the ERB, an exam required for admission into nearly all the elite private elementary schools,” but as time went on the mom claims that the school’s promises turned out to be “a complete fraud.”
According to the lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Imprescia says her daughter Lucia was forced to spend time with unsophisticated and immature two- and three-year-olds instead of focusing on test preparation.
The New York Post got in touch with the school’s owner, who declined to comment on the suit, except to say that Imprescia’s charges were a “first” in the school’s 30 years in business.
Imprescia’s suit also claims that at age four, the school was still teaching her daughter about shapes and colors. “In other words,” the suit maintains, “there was no ‘curriculum designed for a specific age group’ also as promised.”
So, basically the mom is miffed because she thinks preschool administrators duped her and now she wants her $19,000 back.
Personally, I think anyone who pays $19,000 a year on preschool should re-evaluate his or her own intelligence. Just sayin’.
Is any preschool worth nearly $20,000 a year?
Is preschool necessary at all?
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