Ack.
She’s Warm, Easy to Talk to, and a Source of Terror for Private-School Parents
As admissions director since 1996 at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side, Ms. Krents decides each year which of the city’s supply of high-achieving 4-year-olds get the privilege of attending one of the nation’s best-regarded kindergartens, which costs $36,970 a year.
The Barricade is a pretty scary toy, and it’s not even close to being the scariest Nerf gun. … Indeed, Nerf has become a lot more frightening since I was a kid. … Over the past few weeks I’ve been playing with some of the new Nerf guns, and I’ve tied myself in knots thinking about whether ultrarealistic weapons are just harmless fun or whether they reveal something terribly wrong with modern American boyhood.
Oy.
Thirty-six grand for kindergarten? Worries about Nerf guns, and thinking that they are “ultrarealistic?”
We’re doomed.
No, really. We’re doomed. If this sort of thinking infects a good fraction of the voting public – and I think it has – then before too long the North Koreans will be able to simply walk in and take over the joint.