Private Schools Are Indefensible - The Atlantic

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 47:56 Photo illustrations by Oliver Munday and Arsh Raziuddin; renderings by Justin Metz This article was published online on March 11, 2021. Updated at 7:42 p.m. ET on March 26, 2021. Dalton is one of the most selective private schools in Manhattan, in part because it knows the answer to an important question: What do hedge-funders want? They want what no one else has. At Dalton, that means an “archaeologist in residence,” a teaching kitchen, a rooftop greenhouse, and a theater proscenium lovingly restored after it was “destroyed by a previous renovation.” “Next it’

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