Two young, hip, Manhattanite mothers were casually brunching over breakfast at Balthazar one morning, when one turned to the other and said "Hey, your boss in Graydon Carter, he of the Waverly Inn and Vanity Fair, let's see if he will fund our idea of a totes exclusive high school for our spawn right here in the village!"

And it was so, because that is how magical things are in the Big Apple; one day you are just another moderately wealthy teenager from good stock, having to commute to St. Ann's everyday while your friends enjoy the fruits of their parents' labor over at Dalton or Trinity, the next you're at a feeder school to the front-pages of VF, only blocks away from your mom's condo on Christopher St.

So how will the new Greenwich Village High School (helped funded by John John Leguizamo!) differ from any of the other elite private schools NYC offers?

Mr. Liebmann said he was drawn to the new school’s motto, “Work hard, be kind, take risks,” and was mapping out an interdisciplinary academic program that would emphasize hands-on learning and community involvement. For instance, he said, the class schedule will allow time for field work every week so that, say, students can hone their Chinese-language skills in Chinatown and study physics in motion on a subway car.

“They’ve got to love school, because this is not a place where they can coast,” he said. “They’ll be challenged every day.”

This is pretty revolutionary, since it's doubtful that the kids making the cut for the school have ever been on a subway, let alone Canal Street.

But no worries for the P.S. 122 crowd, the Greenwich Village High School will take scholarship cases, as the sliding scale for enrollment will run "from $1,000 to $34,729," which means you might not be able to afford college if you end up going to high school.

But who needs college if you're going to the HS equivalent of the Waverly?