Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 08:29     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Someone cares enough to respond.

For those interested in looking into their own school rather than hear outdated opinions on the outer boroughs from people on an anonymous board, the tax filings of all these schools are readily available to read online. 3.1 million is about 3x what the already high salaries of people in this position at TT schools make and about 3x what the president of Harvard makes. It was my final straw. What a boondoggle.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 08:20     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
I don’t think anybody cares, or necessarily believes you
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 07:16     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?


The big clue was that the headmaster makes over 3 million dollars. If you weren’t so busy trying to prove I was someone else
you don’t like, you would have figured it out.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 23:48     Subject: Re:Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t talking about the population of kids (by the way Bed-Stuy is where the children of law firm population live in their 20s now. These ideas about NYC are about as current as Bonfire of the Vanities).

I was talking about what is in the actual curriculum. I was at one school performance at a TT where the kids recited the difference between equity and equality like a prayer. Now, you will tell me no TT would let someone like me into the building or that my child is a loser blah, blah, blah, but they had done a whole project on how equality wasn’t enough and now they were on a journey to equity and no, it wasn’t Dalton.

Why not name the school? I am sure are proud of this work and would only be happy if you spread the word.


This sounds pretty tame, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them did it - they all spend effort trying to convince kids they should be nice to normal people because they’re not growing up around any.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 23:20     Subject: Re:Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t talking about the population of kids (by the way Bed-Stuy is where the children of law firm population live in their 20s now. These ideas about NYC are about as current as Bonfire of the Vanities).

I was talking about what is in the actual curriculum. I was at one school performance at a TT where the kids recited the difference between equity and equality like a prayer. Now, you will tell me no TT would let someone like me into the building or that my child is a loser blah, blah, blah, but they had done a whole project on how equality wasn’t enough and now they were on a journey to equity and no, it wasn’t Dalton.

Why not name the school? I am sure are proud of this work and would only be happy if you spread the word.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 22:19     Subject: Re:Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t talking about the population of kids (by the way Bed-Stuy is where the children of law firm population live in their 20s now. These ideas about NYC are about as current as Bonfire of the Vanities).

I was talking about what is in the actual curriculum. I was at one school performance at a TT where the kids recited the difference between equity and equality like a prayer. Now, you will tell me no TT would let someone like me into the building or that my child is a loser blah, blah, blah, but they had done a whole project on how equality wasn’t enough and now they were on a journey to equity and no, it wasn’t Dalton.


Was it Riverdale? Because everyone knows Riverdale is TT!


Riverdale is where all the people who thought Fieldston was too woke fled to.


Like Archie and Jughead?
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 22:17     Subject: Re:Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t talking about the population of kids (by the way Bed-Stuy is where the children of law firm population live in their 20s now. These ideas about NYC are about as current as Bonfire of the Vanities).

I was talking about what is in the actual curriculum. I was at one school performance at a TT where the kids recited the difference between equity and equality like a prayer. Now, you will tell me no TT would let someone like me into the building or that my child is a loser blah, blah, blah, but they had done a whole project on how equality wasn’t enough and now they were on a journey to equity and no, it wasn’t Dalton.


Was it Riverdale? Because everyone knows Riverdale is TT!


Riverdale is where all the people who thought Fieldston was too woke fled to.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 22:16     Subject: Re:Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t talking about the population of kids (by the way Bed-Stuy is where the children of law firm population live in their 20s now. These ideas about NYC are about as current as Bonfire of the Vanities).

I was talking about what is in the actual curriculum. I was at one school performance at a TT where the kids recited the difference between equity and equality like a prayer. Now, you will tell me no TT would let someone like me into the building or that my child is a loser blah, blah, blah, but they had done a whole project on how equality wasn’t enough and now they were on a journey to equity and no, it wasn’t Dalton.


Bed stuy “gentrifiers” is where 20 somethings with student loans live. Those with means live in WV, Williamsburg, and occasionally the EV.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 22:14     Subject: Re:Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t talking about the population of kids (by the way Bed-Stuy is where the children of law firm population live in their 20s now. These ideas about NYC are about as current as Bonfire of the Vanities).

I was talking about what is in the actual curriculum. I was at one school performance at a TT where the kids recited the difference between equity and equality like a prayer. Now, you will tell me no TT would let someone like me into the building or that my child is a loser blah, blah, blah, but they had done a whole project on how equality wasn’t enough and now they were on a journey to equity and no, it wasn’t Dalton.


Was it Riverdale? Because everyone knows Riverdale is TT!
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 22:12     Subject: Re:Best private schools in NYC?
I wasn’t talking about the population of kids (by the way Bed-Stuy is where the children of law firm population live in their 20s now. These ideas about NYC are about as current as Bonfire of the Vanities).

I was talking about what is in the actual curriculum. I was at one school performance at a TT where the kids recited the difference between equity and equality like a prayer. Now, you will tell me no TT would let someone like me into the building or that my child is a loser blah, blah, blah, but they had done a whole project on how equality wasn’t enough and now they were on a journey to equity and no, it wasn’t Dalton.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 21:27     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

The people who are really invested in these places often are the people who didn’t go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton, so they don’t know the many, many people who graduate from those places who live perfectly average or below average lives. It was amazing to me when I matriculated my child at one how willing people were to do whatever the school said even if it was like getting rid of phonics —
only to say oops! bad idea — no one can read! a few years later. A bad admin can do a lot of damage really fast at any school.

These places are hit and miss, some elementary are better, some have excellent high schools but bad middles. They run the gamut. Some you can bribe for grades, some are very good about not letting money be a huge part of school life. Almost no one outside an incredibly small percentage of people whose children go there or who want their children go there knows the difference between these places. New York is a big, big place, and where you went to high school is a small, small matter. Where you went to elementary even less so.

They are not jealous of you for sending your kid there. Your kid is not better than theirs and it’s a bad idea to accept “just trust us” from any school, but you have to when there because the parents are so unwilling to advocate for their own kids’ education.




Thanks, Brearley parent, who still hasn’t said what kind of school is better for a city resident.

A lot of people know HYP isn’t a meal ticket. Having a substantial pre-college network is more important.

A lot of parents do what the schools say so they can get into college and not flame out like you, posting screeds dozens of times on here.

Anyone who matters know these schools and differentiates between them. No one cares what East New York or City Island residents think. My children are better than theirs, and they’d take the resources and time I give my children in a heartbeat.



What in the ever-loving fuqq.


I agree with that poster. If those people raise their kids in squalor and let them run around gang banging and shooting each other, then why should I care about them? Are they actually as good as high achieving, law abiding youth?
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 21:26     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:Also, if you think you are avoiding equity and racial quotas at a Manhattan TT, you really have no idea what they are teaching your kids.


A lawyer making 200k gets FA and fills a quota. A feral youth from the wrong part of Bed Stuy is a different situation and he’s bussed into all sorts of public schools
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 19:31     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Also, if you think you are avoiding equity and racial quotas at a Manhattan TT, you really have no idea what they are teaching your kids.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 19:28     Subject: Re:Best private schools in NYC?
Because it teaches math in word problems rather than as a language all on its own and emphasizes “number sense” (a term it doesn’t define) and tactile learning. It was developed for Singapore children who all speak different dialects as a way to teach math and English at the same time, and quants think using it as a core of how to teach math prevents kids from developing math as a language all its own separate from literacy. In Russia and China, they get to calculus like 4 years before we do because they teach it much, much faster and don’t waste any time. They treat the math facts the way musicians treat scales, a necessary component to do more complicated work. Singapore doesn’t do the rows and rows of math facts and is much more like the common core found in “gasp” public schools.

Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 19:18     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

The people who are really invested in these places often are the people who didn’t go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton, so they don’t know the many, many people who graduate from those places who live perfectly average or below average lives. It was amazing to me when I matriculated my child at one how willing people were to do whatever the school said even if it was like getting rid of phonics —
only to say oops! bad idea — no one can read! a few years later. A bad admin can do a lot of damage really fast at any school.

These places are hit and miss, some elementary are better, some have excellent high schools but bad middles. They run the gamut. Some you can bribe for grades, some are very good about not letting money be a huge part of school life. Almost no one outside an incredibly small percentage of people whose children go there or who want their children go there knows the difference between these places. New York is a big, big place, and where you went to high school is a small, small matter. Where you went to elementary even less so.

They are not jealous of you for sending your kid there. Your kid is not better than theirs and it’s a bad idea to accept “just trust us” from any school, but you have to when there because the parents are so unwilling to advocate for their own kids’ education.




Thanks, Brearley parent, who still hasn’t said what kind of school is better for a city resident.

A lot of people know HYP isn’t a meal ticket. Having a substantial pre-college network is more important.

A lot of parents do what the schools say so they can get into college and not flame out like you, posting screeds dozens of times on here.

Anyone who matters know these schools and differentiates between them. No one cares what East New York or City Island residents think. My children are better than theirs, and they’d take the resources and time I give my children in a heartbeat.



What in the ever-loving fuqq.