<p>Just because rich people have money doesn’t mean they should waste it. Case in point, Warren Buffett drives an old car.</p>
<p>I’ve made the rounds today on various other threads and saw that you two have quite the back-and-forth going on, so I’ll just leave it be. And you’re welcome, pwalsh, for the defense.</p>
<p>@pwalsh,
Are u questioning the high cost of tuition because u don’t think it’s value for money? Or because u want to know how the schools add up the operating costs to arrive at the sticker price? </p>
<p>Public school’s not exactly “free”. D.C. public school system spends nearly $30k/student. It makes the $35k day tuition at a top BS seem not unreasonable for what u get.</p>
<p>Pwalsh is fond of two sentence, dashed-off comments. Posting to provoke doesn’t generally lead to healthy message boards–but every year there’s one teen on this board who takes on the “annoy the parents” role. Makes me feel like I’m sitting at my dinner table. :)</p>
<p>We have a visit from the heads of a couple prominent ‘feeder’ middle schools a few days from now here at Hotchkiss. I will try and remember as many names as possible.</p>
<p>Eaglebrook is definitely a “feeder” middle school-- but both it and Cardigan Mtn are all boys, just so you know.</p>
<p>A few points on the feeder school question:</p>
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<li><p>As elite prep schools admit students who attend schools in numerous foreign countries and most every U.S. state and territory ([Phillips</a> Academy -](<a href=“http://www.andover.edu/About/Pages/FastFacts.aspx]Phillips”>http://www.andover.edu/About/Pages/FastFacts.aspx), [Phillips</a> Exeter Academy | Profile Of Our Students](<a href=“http://www.exeter.edu/admissions/109_14710.aspx]Phillips”>http://www.exeter.edu/admissions/109_14710.aspx)), isn’t attending a so-called feeder school a largely quixotic exercise?</p></li>
<li><p>There is a reductio ad absurdum quality to this issue. If feeder middle schools are desirable, what about feeder elementary schools for feeder middle schools or feeder pre-K programs to feeder elementary schools? In short, isn’t there a point where parents should stop the merry go round and say enough is enough?</p></li>
<li><pre><code> Having a prep school fair does not make a school a feeder school to Andover, Exeter, etc. any more than hosting a college fair makes Andover or Exeter a feeder school to Harvard, Yale, etc.
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<p>Actually, no – parents don’t stop. Just look at all of the documentaries posted about New York parents going crazy over getting their kids into the “right” nursery schools. It is a madhouse there. The nursery schools are considered the feeders to x, which is the feeder to y, etc. etc. Andover and Exeter remain “feeder” schools to certain Ivies, just not in proportion to what they were in the past.</p>
<p>In NYC in particular, vying for “feeder schools” really does start in preschool. Sometime if you are on Netflix, check out the documentary “Nursery University.” That whole process sounds like an absolute nightmare!</p>