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Narrator:Please join Buffy and Tripper and their conversation....they are talking to each other on their blue tooths, so their conversations can be easily overheard (well, they are so loud in their conversations taking place at Whole Foods and at Pilates, that you can hear them anyway....)

"Oh Buffy, it is simply too shocking for words! One of our illustrious hallowed halls of overpriced Main Line Learning is in Philadelphia Magazine!"

"Oh how shocking Tripper! Can you imagine all the chatter at the "club" now? They won't be dishing merely who is up for membership and what to do with those pesky assessments."

"Too true, Buffy. They will be talking about the schools! Can you imagine? It's just like that horrid blog and that small minded group of mean spirited individuals who don't like eminent domain and ruined all your stucco shopping opportunities a couple years ago!"

"Not only that Tripper, but we'll find out who raises their own children. After all WHO raises their own children anymore? That is like giving yourself a manicure! Why do it yourself when you can pay someone else to do it and be utterly obnoxious about it?"

"Oh Buffy, next they'll be talking about our cars - the size, excessive numbers of them and how we drive. Speaking of which, honey sweetie pie, when you are going to tennis and botox, you really need to stop at those stop signs and traffic signals. Pedestrians are annoying, but they aren't optional"

[indignant squeal]"That's it Tripper! You have crossed a line and are a fine one to talk with that $25,000 cell phone bill each month! Pay up buddy..that comment will cost you... better get me that new Prada bag with matching thigh high boots or NO MORE nooky for you - you'll have to get it from the nanny!"

"Oh please, Buffy, like you would do that? Then it would get messy, you would throw organic carrots and your pink Razor phone at someone, and where would we be? Watching you on the news in a bad powder blue pants suit without the botox like that Main Line Mama Temper woman...there is no pilates in Montgomery County Jail and you hate Norristown! Just chill and read the article! I have to go buy a new Hummer and fire a bunch of people, and check on our new McMansion, do you think 5 garage bays are overkill?"

"Tripper I just don't know if I can decorate 5 garage bays! Those are a lot of "car moods"...well maybe I will check out First Friday Main Line tonight. I heard it's the new Main Line thing to do...kisses and talk to you later...bye"

"Later Buffy"

Too true, Buffy and Tripper, the entire area is agog still over Baldwin-The Teacher-Spoiled Rich Parents-The Money Hook-and The Case of the Bratty Kid. We're sure several someones will get their monogrammed knickers in a twist over this one...but all Philadelphia Magazine does again is point out how ridiculous we've allowed the Main Line to become. How we have forgotten to respect educators and raise our own children. This is just another case of misplaced senses of spoiled entitlement pay to get what they want...only they are not pitching bags of organic carrots like Susan Tabas Temper, they are paying others to do their dirty deeds. Heaven forbid they actually consider the fact that a spoiled child might just be a spoiled child they don't know very well because then they might have to admit they were spoiled, obnoxious adults as well? This teacher gave her life to this school....until Mr and Mrs Nouveau Riche rolled up and donated a fat check to a headmistress sucking up as her own form of job security and isn't that how this story goes? The sad saga of the Nouveau Main Line continues? We'll give away the Barnes Museum, fire all the teachers (check other schools, bet this isn't the only story like this going on), bulldoze all the charming and historic homes for Garage Mahals and Milliion Dollar Condo Ghettos, ok whatever Harriton High School wants and screw over Lower Merion High School, etc, etc.

To say you were from the Main Line used to mean something....now it is just so very truly embarassing.

So read the article and don't forget about the comments section - they are even better then the article.

Philadelphia Magazine: Class Warfare By Jessica Pressler

On a hot afternoon in July, Patricia “Patsy” Tollin, a former teacher at the prestigious Baldwin School and the plaintiff in a lawsuit that has had the Main Line talking all summer, is sitting in her lawyer’s Bala Cynwyd office, describing an incident in which she says Sheryl Pouls, the parent of one of Tollin’s former second-grade students, showed off a pair of surgically altered breasts in a Baldwin School classroom as Tollin and another parent looked on. “She opened her shirt and said, ‘Look how small they are!’” says Tollin, pursing her lips in the manner of a schoolmarm, which is what she is. “I couldn’t tell.”

.....The drama has made the Baldwin Battle the most riveting Main Line scandal since, well, Susan Tabas Tepper chucked a bag of carrots at her nanny last year. In fact, according to Tollin, the Poulses made the Royal Bank heiress, who was convicted earlier this year of mistreating her staff, look like a regular Donna Reed.

“I had Susan Tabas Tepper’s daughter in the same class,” Tollin says. “Susan was warm, she read to the children, brought them treats.” She shrugs. “She was a delight.”

...Of these stories, few were more salacious than the wild ones told by the players themselves. “I know a woman,” says Michael Pouls, 45, a mountain of a man with dark hair, preternaturally white, straight teeth, and a permanently furrowed brow, “who will tell you she witnessed Patsy Tollin throwing a blind child into a locker.”

......There’s also been a shift in values, Mark Halpern will tell you, and not for the better.

“It’s not how it used to be,” he says disgustedly. “It used to be that you’re not bravado. You weren’t driving around in your Hummers. It used to be huge estates with incredible money, but those people would never — it was embarrassing to show your money. It was beneath you. You never tried to use your money for anything other than philanthropic things. You would send your kids to school, and if the teacher was strict, you would say, ‘That’s the way it is.’”...“You know we need this family,” Sally Powell said then, according to Tollin — the implication being that the school couldn’t afford to lose the Poulses’ donation. (Powell denies saying this.)....At the conclusion of the meeting, according to Tollin’s complaint, Powell said that if Tollin didn’t “fully satisfy the Poulses,” she would have to “rethink” Tollin’s contract....“Oh, I love my new teacher,” Amanda responded, according to her father. “She gives us candy. But I think Mrs. Tollin is mad.”

“Why is that?” Pouls asked.

“I think it’s because I’m not in her class anymore. She misses me.”

Her father asked why she thought that. “Because when I saw her in the hallway,” Amanda told him, “I waved at her and she didn’t wave back.”

“And I knew,” says Michael Pouls. “That the teacher was staring my daughter down.”

It was then, Sheryl Pouls says, that she grew tired of being politically correct....“I lost my composure,” Sheryl says..“You f***ing bitch! I want you fired or I’m taking my money and my girls out of this school!”

NICE POTTY MOUTH GENTEEL MOMMY...again...read the comments Philly Mag is allowing to be posted..they are truly delightful...

"The Pouls should have been included in the previous issue of your magazine. I worked for them for several months, and all I saw was spoiled childeren, an absentee father who spent a lot of money to keep everyone happy, rude behavior from the entire family..."

and

"....assume that most of these letters are from people that live on the Main Line. First of all, if this teacher was such a menace, she would have been fired. Second, the point that Mrs. Tollin made about not knowing how to use utensils ...simply a statement that these children are raised by nannies and other hired help. Did Sheryl Pouls ever have a job??? No, but she has a full staff, including 2 people just to play with her children! (Someone should check their working papers during this investigation)....They should be reminded that they are from Cherry Hill, not Beverly Hills. "

and

"...I have read this article in it's entirety and have come to the conclusion that parents need to allow the teachers and administrators to do their jobs. Yelling is not abuse..."

and

"....My question is where was the Board of Trustees in this whole mess? How could they possibly have allowed Baldwin's reputation to be sullied for the sake of a gymanasium....

and

"...Money can buy a lot, but not friends or class or the ability to know when to do the right thing. And when to know that your children may be your blessing, but not everyone else things they are perfect...."

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