What's the REAL reason Horace Mann can't spell "privilege"?

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Ha! You left out the "preparatory school" part that follows the "co-educational college" part. I mean, I don't think I attended college for 12 years before attending college itself.

Horace Mann was a real person, generally regarded as the father of modern education. There are about 30-40 schools of various kinds in America named after him. The one you found is often regarded as the best private high school in NYC, and one of the best in the country. It started out as a teaching school for Columbia U's Teachers College, on the Columbia campus (there's still a building there with the Horace Mann name). It was the traditional school as opposed to the experimental school (which became NYC's Fieldston School, another private high school that is now in the Riverdale part of the Bronx that Horace Mann occupies). Numerous famous graduates include William Carlos Williams (class of 1903), former Congressman Allard Lowenstein, and Jack Kerouac, who was sent there for a term or two by Columbia after they recruited him for their football team (you can read about it in his Visions of Duluoz). Current students include Sp*ke Lee's kid.