To: wintertime
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.
548 posted on
02/01/2007 5:42:53 PM PST by
durasell
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To: durasell
Catholic schools ,at one point, did a good job with non degreed Nuns who were paid nothing.
551 posted on
02/01/2007 5:45:55 PM PST by
perseid 67
(A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet.)
To: durasell
Quick, somebody tell all those folks with kids at Choate they're throwing their money away.
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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!)
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