Were it not for the price tag ($530,320 for two kids for four years), and the fact that my kids likely wouldn’t be accepted, and the reality that—despite my occasional threats to the contrary—I actually don’t want to ship my kids off to boarding school, I would be interested in sending my kids to Phillips Andover Academy. Alas, no matter how many times I re-work the family budget, I can’t find that spare half million. We could get partway there. I could swing tuition for the first three or four days.

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