Message from amadelo

[Anonymous]

Clay and everyone, I have mixed feelings about the boarding situation. While it allows boarding students to mix with kids from other areas, most of these kids are presumably from the same class. I guess that's how it goes at a lot of our schools. Some private schools (including ours) are trying to diversity its population (race, class, learning differences) with some successes. But there's a learning curve and we've encountered stumbling blocks. How much are Chinese private and public/public schools addressing this issue? Also, like you mentioned, some kids may feel abandoned by their parents.

On a side note, the international, boarding population at my previous employer, the Ross School in East Hampton, NY, now has many Chinese students. I was surprised at how many of them were Chinese given the hefty price tag for them to be there.