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[quote=Anonymous]If you attend a school with a Head who has been around a long time, donors really can't affect the culture. That head will heavily influence who is recruited to the board and those trustees are more controlled by him than the other way around. Anyway, a good board doesn't overreach into administrative decisions. That's bad governance. The notion that donors get preferential treatment is just misguided. Teachers may have a sense of a student's wealth by what they say in class, but the faculty prefers not to know and advancement staff don't discuss that kind of thing with the teachers. Wealthy families that try to use philanthropy to get, say, a student's grades changed, are doing a lot more harm than good. Schools hate that kind of quid pro quo thinking and they will push back. It can really backfire. If you even want to attempt throwing your weight around as a donor, the "high five figures" (as a PP said) is so low as to be ridiculous. [/quote]
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