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Old 01-02-2016, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by jblum315 View Post
We didn't have a reading list (private school) Everyone read one book at a time
I have friend who teaches at the Princeton Day School.
Tuition for the 2015-16 Academic Year
Grades PreK-4 $27,280
Grades 5-6 $31,890
Grades 7-12 $33,430
The entire school read the same book over the summer plus other books too I suppose. One year they all read "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States."

It's a very competitive school for children of the wealthy. I guess they want the students to get a taste of what it's like to live on minimum wages. It's an interesting book that shakes thing up a bit.