‘No chairs, no stairs, no glass in the windows’: what did Kanye West’s schoolkids get for $15,000 a year? | Arwa Mahdawi

The rapper denies his private Christian academy was a dystopian institution'. But the bizarre allegations keep coming

When you reach a certain level of wealth, a little switch seemingly gets turned off in your brain. The part of your mind that tells you: Nah, I'm not really qualified for this," is disabled and you become convinced that being filthy rich makes you an expert in everything. There are plenty of examples of money brain" out there, but one of the more glaring is Kanye West. Ye, as West likes to be known, seems to think that his success in music and fashion makes him qualified to do everything from run for president to set up a school.

We all know how his presidential aspirations went, but we are only just discovering quite how bizarre the disgraced musician's foray into education was. A few years ago, Ye opened a private school in Los Angeles called Yeezy Christian Academy, which became Donda Academy. The school, which cost $15,000 (11,600) a year, was named after his late mother, Prof Donda West, and was highly secretive about its unorthodox approach.