The  New York Times reports that the York Avenue Preschool has failed the offspring of Nicole Imprescia by not getting her into an Ivy League school.  Imprescia’s daughter, Lucia, is now 4 years old, but we all know that price of admission is paid early.

The suit charges that preschool education is critical to a child’s success in life, quoting from various news articles. “It is no secret that getting a child into the Ivy League starts in nursery school,” says one. “Studies have shown entry into a good nursery school guarantees more income than entry into an average school,” says another.

Instead of prepping little Lucia for the E.R.B.s, which will dictate whether she’s given the corner office in the long-term future, she “was ‘dumped’ into a class with 2-year-old children, talking about shapes and colors, according to the lawsuit.”  No mother pay’s $19,000 for preschool to have their baby dumped.

Turley has given Imprescia the nickname “Tiffany Mom,” to distinguish her from “Tiger Mom” and mom’s who drive minivans.

As entrance in top schools has become more and more competitive, parents are becoming more aggressive in seeking to guarantee every advantage for their children. In the case of Nicole Imprescia, this means going to court to sue a school over its failure to prepare her daughter for the Ivy League. Her daughter, Lucia, is four. The school is the York Avenue Preschool. It seems that there are “Tiger Moms” but then there are “Tiffany Moms.”

I assume that Turley means to suggest that Imprescia buys mass produced jewelry from once-great stores that are now chains and do a ton of catalogue sales, and trade off the impression that they are better than they are because they were once a significant brand.  Or maybe not, since Turley is a big public school supporter, meaning that he’s egalitarian in spirit and prays nightly that his kid doesn’t join the crips.

There’s nothing new about the attitude toward child-rearing demonstrated by Imprescia.  Or Turley, for that matter.  This has become a cliche among Manhattan wannabes, who indeed are Tiffany aficionados and left to believe that an inadequate score in the E.R.B.s spells a life of miserable poverty and, gasp, the potential of being dumped into a state school.  The shame is that Imprescia’s suit has doomed any possibility that little Lucia will ever be admitted to a decent private day school.  What was she thinking?

And in a bizarre twist of fate, Dan Hull, taking time off from his disco comeback album, posts today in Slackoisie Studies, a video by George Carlin that’s particularly apropos.

Kinda makes you wonder what Carlin was smoking, because whatever it was, it certainly help to clear his vision.  I wonder, does Mrs. Turley drive a minivan and get her Valentine’s bracelet from Zales?

And within second of publishing this post, yet another piece of the puzzle came in from the ABA Journal, instructing law firms how to entice Gen Y lawyers to work for them.

Law firms recruiting Generation Y lawyers may want to cut the description of their history and tradition on their websites and brochures.

Lawyers in Generation Y—which includes those up to 30 years old—typically have an expectation of change, according to Ballad Spahr diversity director Virginia Essandoh, in an article for the National Law Journal. They support innovation and creativity, expect up-to-date technology, and have a sense of fair play and civic responsibility.

It had been my impression that all one needed to recruit a lawyer these days was to offer them a job, based largely on the absence of alternatives.  But then, it’s apparently not sufficient to appeal to their Slackoisie sensitivies.

It may help if the perks will impress the parents of Generation Y lawyers, since parental opinions may be important as new lawyers choose the law firms where they want to work, Essandoh says. Parents may be more likely to endorse a firm that demonstrates concern for the well-being of its associates with wellness programs, cab vouchers, and dinner programs for late-night work, she writes.

Ultimately, it comes back to pleasing the Tiffany mom.  Apparently, it’s true that everything one needs to know is learned in preschool.  Provided the preschool prepares you for the E.R.B.s.

Update:  Will today never stop dropping an embarrassment of riches on SJ?  Via Mike on twitter, the further escapades in American Exceptionalism:

What else can today bring?