For $5,000 YOU Can Have Tea With ASHLEY OLSEN

[matcom]

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Parents looking for a Swiss watch, a date with one of the Olsen twins, or perhaps a few nights at the Fairmont Southampton Princess hotel in Bermuda need just go to school.

With more upper-middle-class parents moving their children into the city's public schools, the annual auction season is becoming increasingly serious.

In areas of Manhattan and pockets of Brooklyn, some schools are pulling in upwards of $100,000 a night offering everything from rides on private jets to handmade art projects by 5-year-olds.

"There are really only so many bake sales and book sales you can do," the president of the Parent Teacher Association at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, Mindy Garelick, said.

Earlier this month, an afternoon tea with actress Ashley Olsen went for $5,000 at the annual benefit for P.S. 87 on the Upper West Side.

"It was really loud and hectic, but from what I remember my husband was bidding back and forth with one other person," the winner of the Olsen tea, Wendy Halperin, said about her winning bid. "The way we look at it, it's our donation to the school for the year. ... We feel like our kids are getting a great education there and we don't pay for private school."


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[underpants]

1. and yet there are no available CD's of the Fleshtones "Roman Gods"

anywhere. Amazing.

[JVS]

2. Just one of them? How much to snort coke off of both of them?

[Blue-Jay]

6. That's usually free if you're buying the coke.

[Bucky]

3. Man, for $5000 I'd want to have tea ON Ashley Olsen

Curious, will I go to hell for that thought?

[giant_robot]

4. No, of course not.

Now please step into the handbasket.

[Beetwasher]

5. Err, For 5K I Better Get Tea-Bagged

And then some.

[Initech]

7. Some people have way too much money.

Maybe if these CEOs would actually pay their employees' pension plans instead of paying their school $100,000 for a ride on a private jet... :eyes:

[texanwitch]

8. Someone would have to pay me $5000 not to have tea with them.

[maveric]

9. I'd better get more than tea for $5000.00!

I wonder what Mary Kate has to offer for five grand?