Parents at the toughest school to get into in the city railed against Uma Thurman’s ex-boyfriend Friday for grousing that it was “cluttered and depressing” and its students were “dirty and disheveled.”
Thurman wants her 4-year-old daughter with ex Arpad “Arki” Busson to attend the elite private arts school Saint Ann’s — a choice that was hotly debated in custody fight in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Busson’s lawyer said the French financier felt the Brooklyn institution “had small classrooms, they were cluttered, that the atmosphere was depressing, that the kids looked dirty and disheveled.”
But parents defended the school, which charges as much as $42,000 a year in tuition.
“A grotesque statement,” said one mom. “The father is a sleazeball and no wonder Uma Thurman is no longer dating him.”
A father added that the kids are “organized and serious” — and sided with Thurman.
“You can’t take a 4-year-old away from their mother,” he said. “Kids have enough separation anxiety. The father is using the kid as a pawn. You want what is best for the kid.”
A rep for Saint Ann’s declined to comment.