New York Prep? It's the Diversity, Damn it!

I haven't seen New York Prep yet, but I suspect that a show about kids who attend public schools like City As School would be more interesting and would better reflect our city. This is not because they are really different from prep school kids. As a prep school kid, albeit a scholarship prep school kid who was not invited to the Hamptons nor particularly welcome there, I can assure you that they aren't really very different.

While these shows do counter the common belief by right wing uneducated conservatives that everyone in New York is on welfare, perhaps they reflect badly on New York City. Public school kids, particularly kids who attend a school like City-As school would be more of a real reflection of New York City. Why not show the unique challenges that teenagers and young people of different backgrounds face in this city?

Where, oh where is the diversity? Are there no Black people who are Real New York Housewives or who attend prep schools in New York?

So, go to a school like City-As where you will find rich kids, poor kids, homeless kids, home alone kids, and kids of different ethnic backgrounds (hello, this is NEW YORK for crying out loud!) gay, straight, trans-gendered...I could go on and on but you get the point.