Kindergarten? It's competitive in L.A.

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ig-kindergarten6apr06,0,7928009.story


Kindergarten? It's competitive in L.A.


It's been a hysteria-prone season for parents of preschoolers jockeying for the coveted slots at top-tier private schools.

By Audrey Davidow, Special to The Times
April 6, 2008

**snip**

Private schools in the Los Angeles area are now receiving up to 10 applications per opening, says Jim McManus executive director of the California Assn. of Independent Schools, and the quality of applicants is getting better. "The competition just keeps getting stiffer," he says. "And it's causing a lot of stress and agony for everyone involved."

"It was the worst experience that I could ever imagine going through as a mother," said one West Hollywood mom, who for obvious reasons requested anonymity: Her child was wait-listed at the two schools to which she applied. "Of course I broke down and started crying. I threw up. I had diarrhea. I locked myself in the closet and drank myself into oblivion. I felt like I failed my kid."

[enlightenment]

1. That is nuts.

The parents need a good swift kick up the caboose. Perhaps they should go to the damned kindergartens. The kids don't need that crap.

Ridiculous.

[AX10]

2. The same thing happens in Manhatten.

[BeHereNow]

3. Seems like it would be easier for them to move to another country...

One that actually values it's young and education.
The children in this country are thought of as nothing
more than cannon fodder for the Empire.

BHN

[jody]

4. $20K a year tuition and one person offering $100K for his child to be admitted. And the media

refuses to recognize class warfare in the U.S. :puke:

Why are wealthy parents worried about their children's education, they'll never have to work a day in their lives.