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We thought of one thing after reading the NY Times article about 92nd Street Y nursery school students' drivers clogging up the streets outside the school: Home schooling. Actually, we also thought "congestion tax," but reading about chauffeured SUVs for tiny children would drive most anyone crazy.
The competitive (which also means prestigious) 92nd Street Y Nursery School sent out a letter to parents warning them that if their cars still caused gridlock, then their kids' chances of getting into the 92nd Street Y's other private school programs might be compromised. Now, that is what we call a threat! The NY Times observed this much:
Over the course of four mornings this winter, at least 22 chauffeured S.U.V.’s were seen, most of them repeatedly, waiting in front of the school while parents brought in their children. Most of the cars belonged to families who live between Lexington and Fifth Avenues and 70th to 86th Streets. Subsequent research found that an overwhelming majority of the fathers in these families earn a living in the field of capital management — running money for hedge funds or private equity funds — though there was one television executive and one professional athlete.Many of the mothers say that the chauffeured SUVs are necessary for errands and because they live far away - like on the Upper West Side (god forbid the child go to a school on the Upper West Side!). There's some suggestion that there are security concerns, but most suspect there's a competition over kids getting dropped off in style. We don't know what to say, except that the Armageddon will come when these kids have to dropped off in those horrible stretch Humvee limos.
And on the topic of nursery school insanity, we interviewed author and former nursery school admissions consultant Karen Quinn two years ago; she said, "I once heard about a father who put on a twenty-slide PowerPoint presentation pitching the advantages of his family and child over other applicants during a parent interview."
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These "parents" are pricks. They represent everything that's wrong with NYC...
Check out this quote from the Times article:
A parent whom other parents identified as a chauffeur-using mother, Alison Schneider, whose husband, Jack Schneider, is a hedge fund manager, said, “I got the letter, but I don’t really have any feelings about it one way or the other. It’s kind of boring. It’s about cars and parking.”
Ew.
Check out this quote from the NYT article:
-A parent whom other parents identified as a chauffeur-using mother, Alison Schneider, whose husband, Jack Schneider, is a hedge fund manager, said, “I got the letter, but I don’t really have any feelings about it one way or the other. It’s kind of boring. It’s about cars and parking.”-
Ew.
I saw that quote too - I wondered whether the mother can actually read, but then realized that the person who does the reading for her was probably out.
And you guys worry about the Federal government spying on you? How did the Times figure out whose kids are in each vehicle and what the parents do for a living and where they live? Presumably the parents own the SUVs and the Times is able to run the plates. It also wouldn't shock me if the vehicles were owned by the hedge funds as a perk for their employees or owned by the parents through a self incorporation tax reduction scheme. Either way it would make the task of figuring out who these people are more time consuming but certainly not impossible.
Maybe the Times asked the people driving the SUVs who they worked for, or asked someone at the school. I've taken nighttime classes at the Y that are held on one of the school's floors -- there are names (and some pics) of the kids everywhere. Between asking around, a phone book, and a little Googling, it's not tough to find where people live.
Also, anyone can go to the DMV and for a few bucks run a plate. You don't need to do anything sketchy or illegal -- just some paperwork and waiting in line.
time to bust out the IEDs?
Also, anyone can go to the DMV and for a few bucks run a plate. You don't need to do anything sketchy or illegal -- just some paperwork and waiting in line.
Are you kidding me? This doesn't sound right. Anyway, tinfoil hat isn't really appropriate for my comment. Tinfoil hats are usually reserved for the crowd that believes in conspiracies. That I don't think the Times should be allowed to run plates hardly makes me a crackpot.
i don't want to live in the world when the children of these people grow up.
Haha - Alison Schneider's father is the former CEO of Bear Stearns. You know, the one who was playing in a bridge tournament while the company was gasping for its last breaths? Not surprising that his daughter would say something like this.