Matt Damon, a Hollywood celeb and public education advocate, recently tried to get his kids admitted to a fancy private school in Brooklyn. They rejected his ass.
Damon, who is moving his family back to New York from Los Angeles, couldn’t persuade the admissions office at St. Ann’s, one of the most exclusive schools for rich kids in New York City, to find spots for three of his young daughters.
Culturally aware celeb Lena Dunham attended St. Ann’s. It’s nice.
One source told the New York Post that Damon had a “conversation” with the fancy school, but St. Ann’s “won’t bend the rules,” even for a major celeb. The children of middling Hollywood celebrities, such as Ethan Hawke and Maggie Gyllenhaal, are students at the school, so Damon must have been pretty pissed.
St. Ann’s offers classes from preschool through high school, and charges as much as $42,555 per year in tuition, depending on the grade. According to its website, the school promotes an atmosphere in which grades, ranking, and prizes are dispatched “in favor of ongoing dialogue and teacher reports.” They even do fancy Puppet Parades.
Damon is already being mocked in online message boards. “Matt Damon (aka Mr Public School) tried to use his celebrity status to get St Ann’s to admit his DCs after the admissions deadline passed, and they got rejected,” wrote some rando. “Am I an awful person for feeling schadenfreude?”
Damon is an outspoken advocate for public education, but doesn’t think public school are good enough for his kids, and doesn’t think he’s a hypocrite, either. Damon said in 2013 that the he had no choice but to send his daughter to private school because “progressive education no longer exists in the public system.”
Whatever you say, Matt Damon.