<p>[The</a> State of Boarding Schools 2012](<a href=“http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2011/12/05/the-state-of-boarding-schools-2012/]The”>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2011/12/05/the-state-of-boarding-schools-2012/)
December 5, 2011
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA</p>
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<p>The companion issue that came up over and over is “what has happened to the domestic market?” In nearly every session, discussion ultimately came to this: the disappearance of the “middle class” from boarding schools, creating a ‘bar bell’ curve of the student body with a sizable number of scholarship recipients at one end, and well-off full-paying students at the other (this later group is increasingly international in make up). Over and over came the refrain: “Where are the great middle class families that used to send their children to our schools?”</p>
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<p>I’m not categorically opposed to need-based financial aid, but every student ought to pay a good bit, say $15K, and some of the aid should be merit-based.</p>