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Overheard - added on 01/08/2008

Pre-School Blues...We Left The City For This?

Woman 1: Can't believe this...3 waiting lists. 4 rejections.

Woman 2: (Nods)

Woman 2: If I knew it was like this, we'd've stayed in the city.

Woman 2: (Nods)

Woman 1: What about you, and Ariel?

Woman 2: It's tough.

Woman 1: So she didn't get in anywhere either?

Woman 2: (Pauses) She did.

Woman 1: Where?

Woman 2: I don't know. It doesn't...

Woman 1: Where?

Woman 2: It really....

Woman 1: D**nit, where? I'm fine. Where did...

Woman 2: Everywhere.

Woman 1: (Silent, pauses) Ariel? (Teary) Katey is so much smarter. You know it...I can't... (Storms away)...overhear more

--Overheard in: Pre-school Lobby, North NJ--

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People think it's easy

- submitted by newworld on 01/08/2008

People think it's easy getting into schools in the ssuburbs. It's changing. it's not like NYC but itsd not a free pass either.

She needs to calm down and

- submitted by Anonymous on 01/09/2008

She needs to calm down and gett a life

We're in new York and

- submitted by Ellenaa on 01/09/2008

We're in new York and nothing is as bad as that. You don't get into nursury school without pay offs,

Why do our kids need nursury

- submitted by Junemom on 01/09/2008

Why do our kids need nursury school, why can't they play and have fun. Everybody has to lightenn up.

Glad all you wimps in

- submitted by Anonymous on 01/12/2008

Glad all you wimps in suburbia have to face what wee have to in the city. Wa Wa just a bunch crybabies, LOL

Wow

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/07/2008

Wow! What a nut job she is. I love it when other parents think their kids are smarter than everyone else's kids.

No one has problems getting into daycare or anything like that around here.

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- submitted by Yogi on 07/21/2009

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Crazy...

- submitted by Anonymous on 09/19/2009

Odd that people are so eager to get their kids into preschool...like it's a mark of honor or something. If I put my son into preschool they wouldn't know what to do with him--he's reading the banner ads to me even as I type! :) Sorry, no preschool for my kid...I don't want him held back.