If your school had parents provide food for dorm feeds, it isn’t a very wealthy school. Millbrook did that, and there were large dorm feeds once or twice a semester. Hotchkiss has a fund designated for feeds, and the faculty arranged them pretty much weekly.
I don’t think that dorm feeds have anything to do with school wealth. The school @sgopal2 is referring to has about the same endowment as Hotchkiss ($470M vs $490M). SPS, with a $633M endowment, has no dorm feeds.
What are dorm feeds? I have never heard of such a thing. Either kiddo did not report or they don’t exist there either.
I stand corrected!
Dorm feeds at Hotchkiss are at 10 pm after study hall, and it’s food – pizza, chicken wings, homemade brownies and milk, etc etc, and all/most of the kids and faculty gather and eat and hang out. There’s a faculty member who organizes the feed.
This happens frequently. I’d have ask my son, but definitely at least every other week, and likely even more frequent. Day students are included and take part (day students are assigned a room).
At Millbrook, dorm feeds happened once a term, and were complete meals. Again all I. The dorm participated, but these feeds were organized and paid for by the parents.
Dorm feeds at kiddo’s school are frequent. Seemed to have more - like at least weekly - of them Freshman year. Sometimes there are extra feeds for no reason or if a parent brings in food. Last year, a parent ordered Insomnia Cookies for the entire dorm and it wasn’t a “feed night”. In addition, there are feeds during finals week. Dorm feeds typically happen @ 10 PM - in the main living room of the dorm after study hours and before lights out. Everything from pizza, wings, breakfast items, cookies, cake, ice cream - fun food that is not the healthiest choice. Nothing like a huge sugar rush before lights out! Like noted above, these feeds are usually organized by dorm parents. Extra school-wide feeds happen during finals, big game weekend, Super Bowl, Final Four, etc in the dining hall.
Also some of the folks in the directory have rather famous unusual names, so yes you can tell who some of the Uber wealthy are. Some of the grandparents are also quite famous. My kid has reported the connections and thinks it’s funny in some respects. Doesn’t seem to matter in terms of who is friends with whom.
The school in question is Lawrenceville. Definitely not poor by any means. But they wanted parents to chip in for a weekly feed. During busy times (like finals) they even asked the parents to help cater in for breakfasts.
I was glad to do it. Was a great way to connect with my sons housemates and the housemasters.