<p>Yes, I also sense that extreme divide is amplified at day schools where the kids all go home to their respective zipcodes at night. </p>
<p>That’s not to say that extreme divide doesn’t rankle at boarding schools. It is an issue that Shamus Khan touched on in his book “Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School”. As in Khan’s book, DS has reported that some of the outreach students (not all) at his school have feelings of alienation and make public declarations of their bitterness right before graduation. While there was a wide range of family incomes at DS’s previous international school in GMT+7, there were no truly poor kids.</p>
<p>DS also gets invited to stay with friends during breaks at their homes. It makes me gasp where some of these houses are.</p>