My cousins went to a school that was comparable in price. I went to public school

Not too long ago the right seized upon the hoity-toity menu at Sidwell Friends. My response was: 'For 33K, they sure as hell better be eating like kings and queens!'

If I were the type (i.e. wealthy) to send the little darlings to prep school, I'd pick Sidwell, all things considered!

though it seemingly doesn't do a universal job of producing decent people, or instilling civic responsibilities.

It's up to the observer to determine if those businessmen were taught something of having an ethical or moral code. Some of the greatest industrialists and captains of industry became known and wealthy precisely because they operated without any moral code and were truly efficient at destroying competitors and creating monopolies, and if it wasn't a monopoly, it was everything but a monopoly in name.

Working a full time job and hustling work on the side .We have a family of 3. How's that for perspective?

and in the highest cost of living in the country. But there are upsides too

When all our kids can have access to the quality of education that is available at Andover, Exeter, Punahou and Iolani, our whole society will be geometrically improved.

Cranapple or whatever doesn't even rate in my book.

The public elementary school my daughter attends is very , very good. Unfortunately, the majority of schools in Oklahoma are not so good

Needless to say, it made me feel as if I were in a different world altogether

Rich people live very different lives from the rest of us.

If you don't live there it's only $28,000.

How about Choate where JFK went to school? Now almost $49,000.

and a master's degree. I made $43,000 counting in pay for summer school and tutoring.

I wonder what they pay their teachers?