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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who don’t know, Milton Hershey school was set up by the original Hershey trust as a boarding school for high-performing, very low-income kids.  Family income must be no more than 2X the federal poverty level (and the school is free) The school , managed through the Hershey Trust,  is actually a primary shareholder and Director of the Hershey Chocolate Company. There have been recent rumors of Hershey being “in play” as a potential acquisition candidate from other food companies and private equity, but the deal has never materialized specifically because of the obligations to the Hershey School and Trust and the role of the Trust in the governance of the chocolate company.

This is a great school set up in a long-term and philanthropically pure way. Its structure has done what its founder presumably wanted despite the best efforts of many to circumvent it.

If you are a candidate and choose to send your kid there, go get ‘em. [/quote]

No. I am familiar with this school. It started as a good thing to help boys without fathers. It entered into the system of taking in boys who have issues with the law along with boys who are fatherless and many of those families do not realize the difference until there kid is there. This is not Choate.[/quote]

Nobody said it was Choate. These aren’t kids who are debating between Hotchkiss and Andover, they are largely severely disadvantaged children with enormous odds stacked against them.  This offers a way out and a good education.  There are definitely behavior issues and problems,  but outcomes in aggregate are certainly superior to most under-resourced schools in the most disadvantaged areas.[/quote]

Boarding schools have huge endowments and offer great FA and many disadvantaged students do not realize this and might be able to go to a Choate. I have a relative who worked at Hershey and who left when the evolution with who was going to the school started and this was many years back. I agree that the students want for nothing and there is a college stipend etc. This is true and well funded but now that the mission changed you have students who have unique needs ie getting away from incarceration etc then a student who lacks a father or father figure and goes to the school to find this. It also used to be for boys and that changed too. All kids have needs but not necessarily a good thing for the kid who has not had to deal with the law and is just looking for a boarding experience. These are complicated issues but well worth talking through.[/quote]

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