I don’t know what I mean...I haven’t kept track of all the schools he supposedly attended for which there really is no record, only heresay. It just seems a natural question to consider; if Mr & Mrs Ayers needed to be thanked for the help they gave zero for his education, and Thomas Ayers was on the Board of the Bank Street institution, which his own son was attending, then would it not be natural for Tom Ayers to avail himself of his connection to enter zero as a foreign student in THAT particular school?
And if he did do what would be natural imo, that’s the LAST thing we would hear or read about...it certainly wouldn’t appear in ‘Dreams’ !
If Ayers wrote ‘Dreams’ he’s not going to write ‘zero and I were at Banks street together...’
ETL, as always your thorough research shines like a beacon.