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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No to WES. Too expensive.  And even at $29K that doesn't include the endless fundraising, auctions, capital campaigns, and other financial demands.  The younger grades' tuition carries the middle school.  Your tuition payments would also cover the "free" trips in sixth grade to Utah and something European in middle school years.  You may well be gone by then (as most WES parents are) so your contributions to the foreign trips bucket is lost.  The pre-school (Transition), K playgrounds are not nice - it's in an old Marriott headquarters - a west exposure with not much shade.  Finally, no bus service, which is a killer in this area.[/quote]

This is a biased view.

As a parent of a transition son, I disagree with the pp's comment on the "not nice playgrounds". I would strongly recommend you to attend one of WES admissions open house (next one on November 12) and see the premises yourself. The old Marriott building (East campus) has been demolished and will turn into a 260’ x 180’ artificial turf athletic field. http://www.w-es.org/page.cfm?p=1404

As for fundraising, auctions, capital campaigns: this is true for every private independent school in the area. Contributions are voluntary in nature. I do not know whether "lower grades finance the 6th grade trip to Utah, 7th grade trip to Italy and 8th grade trip to France or Spain (depending on your language choice)". Does anybody know across area private independent schools by how much lower schools finance middle schools?

Attend one of the forthcoming admissions open houses and see for yourself and ask these questions. There seems to be a lot of misinformation on private independent schools in this forum unfortunately.[/quote]

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