Man, I read in an independent school magazine once about some parents who wanted little scion to go to nursery school X because it had the highest rate of admission to elementary school Y which had the highest rate of admission to Lawrenceville which had the highest rate of admission to Princeton.

*shudder*

I probably know parents like that, too, but am blissfully unaware.

Meanwhile someone advertised a nursery school in davis_square the other day whose curricular philosophy is that little kids should....play. I am so totally charmed. I didn't know places like that were still allowed to exist in affluent areas.