Thanks for sharing this article @CateCAParent . I agree that I often see articles like this about colleges, but it is rare to find one written about boarding schools. I find this article to be dead-on accurate, as we are currently dealing with two schools on the opposite ends of the spectrum.
My rising 11th grader goes to Mercersburg, which squarely falls between A-B, and my rising 9th grader refused to consider boarding and will be attending a C grade boarding school as a day student. School hasn’t even begun yet and I can already feel the differences between one to the other. The way this article portrays C schools is so close to the reality of the school my 9th grader will be attending, that it almost feels like it was written about them. My son likes the school and was given a generous merit scholarship to attend, but I am very concerned about their financial future. It’s going to be an interesting 4 years!