[durasell]

What is $25,000 a year buying? Answer: Indoor swimming pools, manacured lawns and playing fields, ivy covered buildings, squash and racquett ball courts, weight lifting rooms,,,,etc.

$25,000 a year is buying a country club environment, NOT necessarily a better education





Quick, somebody tell all those folks with kids at Choate they're throwing their money away. But note -- Bill Gates owes his success in large part to the Lakeside school, which invested in a computer system for students in the early 1970s.

[perseid 67]

Catholic schools ,at one point, did a good job with non degreed Nuns who were paid nothing.

[wintertime]

Quick, somebody tell all those folks with kids at Choate they're throwing their money away.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

These people are paying big bucks for social contacts that will be useful to these children later in life. It is possibly buying a somewhat better chance of gaining admission to a highly ranked university. It IS paying for country club facilities.

BUT,,,it is NOT necessarily buying a better **Education**.

In my opinion, yes, the money spent on Exeter, or a Lawrenceville is wasted money,,,IF,,,***education*** is the product desired. If **education*** is the product desired there are many less expensive ways to acquire an education equal to any of the highly priced boarding or prep schools.

If social contacts are desired, or a better chance for admission to a top ranked college, then, perhaps the tuition of Choate will buy that. ( Maybe!)