NUT CASE OF THE DAY – AT 11:44 A.M. You think you know about March madness?  This is the real March madness.  From the Harvard Crimson:

Think the rush to get your kids into Ivy League schools starts in high school? Think again.

Nicole Imprescia is suing York Avenue Preschool, a private preschool in New York, claiming that they may have damaged her four-year-old daughter's chances of getting into an elite private school.

Imprescia also alleges that the school may have hurt her daughter's chances of acceptance at an Ivy League institution such as Harvard, "citing an article that identifies preschools as the first step to 'The Ivy League,'" the New York Daily News reports.

The mother says that she enrolled her daughter at the school based on its promise to prepare students for the ERB test, which is used to place children into elite elementary schools.

Instead, the lawsuit claims, York Avenue Preschool placed her daughter in "a-two-year-old's learning environment" where she was taught shapes and colors.

The suit asks the school to reimburse the $19,000 Imprescia paid in tuition and seeks class-action status for children in a similar situation.

COMMENT:  As a humanitarian gesture, we here at Urgent Agenda are organizing a guerrilla raid to get that kid away from that mother.  A sane mind is a terrible thing to waste. 

And I think a four-year-old should learn shapes and colors.  Comes in handy.

March 20,  2011