At a time when businesses from real estate to cofee shops are
suffering from the economic downturn, one industry seems to be
weathering the storm. According to an article in the New York Times,
pricey private preschools in New York are still flooded with
applications, along with phone calls from off-the-charts nervous
parents hoping to enroll their offspring in the bottom rung of the
elite educational ladder.
The piece's main focus is on filmmaker Marc Simon, a documentarian whose movie Nursery University
chronicles the highs, lows, and overall mania of families trying to get
into such bastions of underage excellence. Simon's previous work
includes After Innocence, a Sundance award-winning fim that
followed formerly imprisoned men after DNA evidence has set them free.
The new movie, which may prove even more intense in subject matter,
aired last weekend at the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and is slated for a theatrical release next spring.
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