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Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty One recent September morning, a seemingly innocuous email landed in the inboxes of the third and fourth grade parents at the United Nations International School, the New York City K-12 private school connected to the U.N. “Special event for J3/J4 Students,” read the subject line.
Tuition for a four-year-old at the United Nations International School, or UNIS, costs $38,600. But for many parents, the Manhattan campus, jutting out into the East River a mile south of U.N. headquarters, is a kind of it’s-a-small-world-after-all humanitarian utopia. Especially for those at the junior — or elementary — school. “You’re actually sort of shunned if you’re a hedge-funder,” claims one. The children of U.N. employees, who attend with the support of U.N.
By Tuesday night, though the White House had requested confidentiality, the story had leaked to the press. A “profoundly disappointed” U.N. employee and parent had written to U.N. Secretary General Catherine Pollard. Vallet and the director, Dr. Dan Brenner, usually visible on campus, were supposedly “hiding.” I got a text that said, “We’re organizing.”
“There’s all kinds of shit going on,” said one parent. “Lots of paranoia.” No one had yet heard from a single family who had signed up their child for propaganda. Some of the parents were focused on a “witch hunt.” Had the amount, roughly half of the 3rd and 4th grade classes, been inflated? Who was the director trying to appease? Dr. Brenner did not return a request for confirmation on how the 90-plus number was calculated.
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