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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I went to *private* school in Europe (K to MS) and we never dreamed of a lot if the things in one of the pp lists. Chess club? Music in ES? AV system for theater productions ? It wound have sounded totally crazy to ask for those things.

I feel it is the sane thing with hospitals and colleges: a lot if bells and whistles here look over the top to an outsider like me. 
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I went to a run of the mill middling public elementary school in NYC in the 1960's and we had music, which I remember very fondly.   I'm not sure why that's such a big deal.  Didn't have chess club till HS, but how expensive to implement is that, exactly? [/quote]

Club quality chess sets are available online for less than $10 per set. A few of those, Principals's OK to use a room after school, and a grown up who knows the game, and you're set. Go a little further and you can enlist a local law firm or company to use their public service hours to come play chess with the kids. Go a little further and raise a couple hundred and you can hire a chess teacher. Just need a parent to step up and organize it. That's how our school did it. [/quote]

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