<p><a href="sakky%20wrote:">quote</a>I'm simply using him as an example to knock down the assertion that "only the socioeconomically privileged few can afford" to attend top prep boarding schools.
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<p>Your example doesn't knock down anything; the word "only" was used in a statistical sense, not a deterministic one. Whatever the benefits of expensive private schools, they are experienced by a much higher proportion of the affluent than the non-affluent.</p>