6.
A half-hour drive up the road from
Shepaug Valley, in the town of
Lakeville, Connecticut, is a school
called Hotchkiss. It is considered one of
the premier private boarding schools in
the United States. Tuition is almost
$50,000 a year. The school has two
lakes, two hockey rinks, four telescopes,
a golf course, and twelve pianos. And
not just any pianos, but, as the school
takes pains to point out, Steinway
pianos, the most prestigious piano
money can buy.^6 Hotchkiss is the kind of
place that spares no expense in the
education of its students. The school’s