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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If you don't think your daughter needs an underground athletic facility and other "spurious capital projects and programs," withdraw her from the school. Attendance is voluntary.[/quote]

Hm, no.  We like the core curriculum and teachers, which we believe are not replicated elsewhere.   We won't be guilted into kicking in an additional $10,000 a year over $30,000 tuition for over-the-top facilities that didn't draw us to the school in the first place and are ridiculously superfluous.

Put another way, if the administration and board truly believes these luxuries are necessary to an education, fine, build the $X million award-winning green building and raise tuition to $42,000 a year.  Bake it right in! and be forthright about your expenditures and costs.

Don't dick around with the low low teaser rate of $30,000 a year, only to pull a bait and switch.  [/quote]

Based on your description, it sounds like this is a well known local school.  If you understand land economics and scarcity, you will understand the long term justification for placing that gym underground, in its current location.  You should actually be lauding those who made that decision for their foresight.  Perhaps you need to consider that any institution wants to be as good as it can for as diverse a student body as possible.  Having excellent arts and athletics is part of a mix to provide as top-notch programming as possible.

I would think a parent would be proud of the institution and enjoy the opportunities for their daughter and her classmates, rather than denigrate choices that others might make that, in the long term, benefit you and your family.

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