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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our daughter was recruited by Deerfield for hockey, and the price would have been around $30k/year, but we are not prep school people and want our kids at home.[/quote]

I don’t know…basically they could have attended one of the best schools in the country (where 40% of the school is on significant FA…so your kid would not have been an outlier) and played hockey for free…so it’s a wash on costs…and you probably travel a ton anyway…so you could travel to watch your kid play hockey…seems like a strange decision unless your kid actually had no interest.[/quote]

She was definitely interested, but our opinion is that we only have a certain amount of time with our kids, and we don’t want to lose any of that time. We do not mind the travel. Some of our best conversations have been on th long car rides to tournaments. For hockey, it is not that much of a cost savings anyway. The majority of kids at prep school also have to join a Tier 1 team for the shoulder/split season. That means in addition to paying for Prep school, you are paying for Tier 1 hockey. Which has a whole other host of logistical challenges: figuring out how to get your kid who is hundreds of miles away to prep practice, games, and tournaments. Some prep schools have arrangements with Tier 1 teams to help with the logistics, but most do not.[/quote]

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