The American School in London is Britain s most expensive day school, charging an astonishing £32,650-a-year in fees to the capital s loftiest bankers, corporate lawyers and celebrities.
At pick-up, parents rub shoulders with footballers Thierry Henry and Mikel Arteta, Hollywood siren Salma Hayek and the occasional plutocrat and oligarch.
To a certain breed of turbo-powered Londoner, having children at ASL is a badge of wealth and privilege, denoting membership of an exclusive club where your child becomes what the prospectus dubs a lifelong learner and courageous global citizen , hopefully with top academic grades and a place at a major university.
Or at least it was.
Megyn Kelly (left) defended Dana Stangel-Plowe (bottom right), a teacher who quit a New Jersey private school, and backed John McWhorter s (top right) call for parents to pull kids from school.