Jeff Lewis’s daughter was just kicked out of preschool, but to no fault of her own.
The Flipping Out star took to his radio show this past week to explain what exactly went down.
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“Flipping Out” star, Jeff Lewis, is on the hunt for a new preschool for his two-year-old daughter, Monroe Christine.
Lewis shares Monroe, who’s almost three, with his ex-partner, Gage Edward.
During this past Tuesday’s episode of “Jeff Lewis Live,” Lewis revealed that Monroe had been expelled from Montessori preschool.
Lewis, 49, said that he had received a call from the school’s headmistress on Friday, who mentioned there being an “issue” or “incident” regarding Monroe.
Let us remind you again that she’s two!
However, Lewis soon revealed that it was him who messed up, not his daughter.
“I received a call on Friday night, it was left on my voicemail,” Lewis said.
“There was part of me that thought I did something, but I really thought maybe Monroe did something, and I was kind of hoping that Monroe did do something like she bit someone or threw sand at someone’s face.”
He admitted that he wished it was her who had done something.
Only that wasn’t the case.
It was the next day that the headmistress issued out the sad news.
Turns out, the school had received several complaints over some of the negative comments Lewis made about the school via his radio show.
“Apparently I’ve mentioned a few things about the school on air,” Lewis said.
He then recalled some of the remarks he had made about “Back to School Night.”
This also included reading emails from parents on air.
Despite his efforts, Lewis was unable to get Monroe back in school.
“The conversation lasted 20 minutes,” he recalled. “For the first 12-13 minutes I groveled and then when I realized there was no hope, it got a bit contentious.”
“I said, ‘I cannot believe this is the Montessori way!’ You don’t get to make amends. There are no second chances, no warnings — nothing. It was immediately, ‘She’s expelled.'”
Nothing could be done.
The headmistress even said that Lewis “bullied” two moms from the school by reading their emails on air.
The star was baffled by the claims.
“I said, ‘Are you kidding me? Bullied? I read two emails! I didn’t say somebody was fat, all I did was read two emails!'”
The headmistress then said that there had been only complaint against him for the emails and it hadn’t even been from one of the two moms.
Although, she mentioned that she was “expecting their call any day.”
Lewis was understandably upset about Monroe not getting a second chance.
“I said, ‘You know what is [expletive]? The fact that you said at ‘Back to School Night’ how much you care about our kids,” he recalled. “What a crock. You care so much about my kid you’re going to kick her out without any sort of ability to have a second chance?'”
In the end, he ended up apologizing.
“I take full responsibility. I am really, really sorry. I feel terrible about what happened. I know how it has affected Monroe. I will never do this again,” he said.
“If I’m going to [expletive] talk, I’m going to do it off the air, obviously,” he added.
He also believed that he picked the wrong preschool for Monroe.
He said it felt too “regimented” and “structured.”
“Everyone takes themselves so seriously at that school,” he continued. “I think these people are arrogant, they’re pretentious…”
“I don’t want Monroe to be in a strict school with overachievers and massive homework. She has her whole life to be stressed out. It’s preschool, let her be a kid and have fun.”
