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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a matter of being down on the school, but at the moment, it is 1990's style vaporware. Anyone can promise the moon, but why would anyone want to risk their kids education to be the first ones in, and at a steep financial cost?[/quote]

PP here, and I haven't read the whole thread, but this is again why I think business/MBA types might be interested in the school.  Huge risk, but they get to be on the ground floor of a whole new school movement that may shake things up in the private school world.  They liked the pitch and the players, and decided to go for it.

And let's be real, their kids' educations won't be ruined by one year at this school.  And if they have 50K to use in this way, I doubt it's a steep financial cost to them.[/quote]

But unlike getting in on the ground floor of an investment, you can already equal returns elsewhere at other schools. There's no benefit to being the first.[/quote]

The benefit is saying you were there.  Perhaps I'm overestimating the likelihood of people going for this.  Of course, people who are more risk-averse are going to stay away.  But I'm thinking of people who might approach this like a venture capitalist, but not for the financial return--people who like the model and are intrigued enough to enroll their kids.  If you're legit rich, your kids will be fine, so what's the down side?[/quote]

No. You probably don't have kids. People don't view their children as capital to invest in experiments.[/quote]

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