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Getting Into School -- Ari Gold Style

It's my job to get our daughter into preschool, and the idea of begging and pleading and shedding tears has me at my wit's end. I just know I'm going to mess it up somehow. Thankfully I've found a way. Ari Gold has shown me the light.

In the latest episode of HBO's Entourage, Gold hires a private detective to find dope on private school director. It may sound over-the-top, but when you're staring at scores of applications and all of them have a space that says, "Father's Occupation" and you just know the next word is going to be "moron," you do what you have to.

Of course, it didn't work for Gold. He ended up shedding tears in the end, and hey, that worked. If my dick doesn't, I'll give it a try.

And as I write this, I'm beginning to wonder whether private detectives are even over the-the-top at all. What did you do -- or what good stories have you heard -- about getting kids into the hottest schools?


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Jane said:

The principal owner of a firm I used to work for sandbagged one of my co-workers to lobby an elite private school on her behalf. It was a Jewish school, and she wasn't Jewish enough for them. (She named her son after her non-Jewish living husband - the horror!)  And, coincidentally, my co-worker's name is Ari, and he's orthodox. Anyway, it was completely unfair cause it wasn't like Ari had any choice in the matter. But I guess there's some sort of secret handshake because it worked.

July 31, 2007 10:06 AM

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