NYC Prep World Reels Over Bravo's NYC Prep

The new Bravo reality show NYC Prep has been ridiculed in many places, but it's mostly bringing shame to the schools where the students/reality show's players attend. In a NY Times Styles section article, parents are uttering things like, “Absolute garbage,” and "Like a bad ‘Dynasty’ episode," about the show that features spoiled teens (including ones who are amazed that teachers wants students "to, like, study during Christmas break") at private schools Nightingale-Bamford School, Dwight School, Birch Wathen Lenox School and the Ross School (in East Hampton) and public school (GASP!) Stuyvesant High School. Administrators are aghast while some parents are upset seeing the show's teens "spend most of their time scheming, partying, eating in expensive restaurants and shopping for $2,000 skirts." But the best quote is from the author of a private school guide, who says, "The schools on this show are all at the bottom"—top schools being Dalton, Brearley, and Collegiate—"There would never be a Brearley girl on this show." Thank goodness for snobbery!

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on July 4, 2009 11:54 AM

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NannyState

I like my Venti Mocha Latte served with two napkins. I hope these prep school brats are learning to get it right.

Lilith

It's not snobbery, its stupidity! The producer/creator of NYC Prep not only graduated from Brearley, but she taught there as well! So Ms. "Private School Guide" should get a clue. Not to take anything away from Brearley, which is a great school, but it certainly doesn't have any claims to moral superiority. (OK, I take it back. Its snobbery AND stupidity.)

Think2wice

The least that they can do for their country—so they don't appear entirely useless—is spend more of their inheritance on American made frippery and baubles. Get to it kids!

Think2wice

The least that they can do for their country—so they don't appear entirely useless—is spend more of their inheritance on American made frippery and baubles. Get to it kids!

FrankMartin

"Thank goodness for snobbery".

How is that snobbery? She is making an observation about the distinction between certain private schools. She is as you point out an author on the topic and I suppose an expert. For me these private schools can all seem the same, but they are different and she is right schools like Brearly, Spence, Collegiate shun publicity at every turn.

Being a queens public school product I can tell you I would send my kid to the best school possible. Private or public. And the more I learn about the resources at these private schools the more they appeal to me. I've also met a number of teachers at these private schools and their passion for teaching is amazing. Frankly, they make my public school teachers, save one or two, seem more like prison guards.

I'd trust myself and my wife to keep me children well grounded. That is after all one of the responsibilities.

Manitoba

I guess they don't teach how or when to use commas in Queens.

Manitoba

DWIGHT = Dumb White Idiots Getting High Together

deviousb

Hey what was thing we used say about Dwight again?

Rocknrope

Taste of your own medicine, there.

deviousb

Hey what was thing we used say about Dwight again?

Manitoba

DWIGHT = Dumb White Idiots Getting High Together

OttoBloggo

It sounds like NYC Prep is about as realistic as "Real Housewives of New York," a show in which no socialite with taste or breeding would dream of appearing.