Civilization comes to New York...

NEW YORK is finally getting a school where children can play cricket, eat shepherd’s pie, and pronounce tomato so that it does not rhyme with potato.

Come September, genuine British schoolchildren in natty red-and-grey uniforms will be seen on the streets of Manhattan with the opening of the city’s only British school.

Located next to the UN school, the British International School will serve British expatriates and Anglophile New Yorkers who want their offspring educated with a proper accent and can pay $26,000 (£13,800) a year in fees.

“We are looking forward to the fact that she can spell ‘colour’ with a ‘u’ and we do not have to say ‘zee’ any more,” said Robin Kent, a British expatriate who is moving his eight-year-old daughter Grace from an American school. “The fact that she can learn to play cricket as opposed to baseball is also a real treat,”
It's a wonderful town

The new school is importing all its textbooks and library books from Britain to ensure that the spelling is correct.