Inventive New Private School Hits Old Hurdles
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Inventive New Private School Hits Old HurdlesInventive New Private School Hits Old HurdlesThe founders of the Blue School aspired to #xcreatechristmas giftssomething different: a private school not fixated on the Ivy League prospects of preschoolers and devoid of admissions hysteria. An education that, as they put it, “you don’t have to recover from.”The school was in the East Village, not uptown, and its leaders were not bluebloods but the founders and spouses of the Blue Man Group, the alternative theater troupe.The school, which is entering its fourth year, has remained true to its progressive roots, with “imagination stations” and “glow time.” Children help direct the curriculum, and social and emotional skills are given equal weight to reading and math.But the school has also developed some characteristics familiar to any New York private schoolchristmas giftsparent. Children must now take the same $510 intelligence test that other schools require for admission. Tuition for kindergarten is now more than $28,000.And despite the fact that it has no permanent real estate, limited financial aid and no track record of placing students in top schools,Energy saving bulbs, six families applied for each available slot in next fall’s preschool class.“We’ve become what we were rebelling against,” said Matt Goldman, one of the founders.The Blue School, consciously or not, tapped into one of New York’s great and frustrating economic paradoxes. In an entrepreneurial city where even volatile commodities like real estate eventually find their equilibrium, the desire for private school seats has outpaced supply for many years, in somechristmas giftscases#x by an order of magnitude.相关的主题文章：
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