I don't understand the pricing model of private schools. I know it's not the common purchase you can just return. I know this because a friend of mine was not due a refund on her daughter's Montessori tuition when the school turned out not to be a good fit for her son because her daughter still qualified for the program, nevermind the fact that it would be driving out of her way to take her preschool daughter to the school to the school if her school-age son was no longer attending. So that's how a school contract goes apparently.
If the lady in the story paid for French classes and test prep and museum field trips it was wrong for her to only get daycare and block sorting. It was unwise for her to muse on the future educational implications and what was her lawyer thinking?!
But that is judging the story at face value only and based only on the way it was worded to us. Perhaps the two year old shapes and colors class was the appropriate test prep class for that child. My 3.5 year old would tank a 4 yr. Old SAT based on color recognition because he recklessly labels black, brown, and navy blue interchangeably, for example. And while he loves tanagram-style puzzles and tesselations thanks to Nanny IPhone and lately Neopets, he would need to be taught the names of hexagons and octagons and parallelograms which would more than likely be on the test.
We can give everybody the benefit of the doubt and assume the child was put in the appropriate class for that reason. The mother, unaware of this came to get her child. Outraged, the mother demanded an explination from the nearest member of the staff who, in an effort to explain did that causation/assumption error thing when she saw a four year old in the two year old class at the same time there was construction in the four year olds area, the rest of whom, by the way, were at the museum.
