Not really a book rec...

[blucola]

There's a book in St Louis that is causing quite a stir; Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler It's based on a school in Ladue (an upscale community, this is where many of the very rich reside in the St Louis County area) called Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School. The following is a quote about the school by someone aghast at the treatment given to MICDS by the author:


Jamieson Spencer, a Country Day graduate and former upper school English teacher at Mary Institute who sometimes reviews books for the Post-Dispatch, lambasted "Confessions" and says he never saw any signs of the cruelty described in it.

"Yes, there were little girls who could be total (witches) to one another; and yes, there were ladies in pink and green who loved their status and background," he wrote in an e-mail. "And kids with no fashion sense or money were often spurned, especially at the younger ages. But the Kitsy character is a real exaggeration — a compilation of the worst tendencies all wrapped up in one horrid female!"

Excuse me, seems to me he just described some of the cruelty! Anyway, my mother wants this book, so you get to hear about it. Aren't I nice? ;)