I didn’t know that, @Agentninetynine. Interesting. I don’t really have a problem with “road shows” per se, as long as they’re being held in locations with good public transportation access and making sure every school in the region knows about the events. If they’re just marketing their events to private schools and affluent school districts, then a pox on all their houses.
Speaking of Stanford, today’s Story Corps episode on NPR was pretty touching: http://www.npr.org/2016/05/13/477694356/a-stanford-family-groundskeeper-dad-cultivates-his-sons-classroom-dream