{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "New NYC 'Adult Preschool' Costs a Pretty Penny", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/114202010328/", "html": "New NYC 'Adult Preschool' Costs a Pretty Penny\n

pureamericanism:

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inherentlygloomy:

Getting in touch with your inner child has never been so expensive.The Brooklyn-based Preschool Mastermind, as it\u2019s called, is a preschool-type experience for adults. No, really. And according to its founder, there\u2019s show-and-tell, arts-and-crafts such as finger paint, games (think musical\u2026

*shoots up a preschool*

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\u201cNext week there\u2019s a field trip. Then the last week of class is \u201cparent day\u201d when the students bring two adults of their choice to class. One woman is actually bringing her parents.\u201d

\u201c\u2026when the students bring two adults of their choice to class.\u201d

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For a while I’d been thinking it would have been nice, after high school or college graduation, to get another year of kindergarden to color things with crayons and decompress.

I told this to an English man I met in a bar once and he was like “ah yes, we do that, we call it a gap year, except instead of crayons we have drugs and sex.”

And I was like “touch\u00e9”.

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