Preparatory Day Schools
Figure 1.--Day schools in the 1980s became an increasingly important component of the prep school community.
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While the traditional prep sxhools were boarding schools, day schools alo appeared as well in the major cities. At first the day schools were rather looked down on because boarding was seen as an integral part of the prep and public school program. As the senior schools were also priparily boarding school, it was seen that boarding was part of the prpgram of preparing the children for their public schools. In recent years, attitudes toward day schools have changed. At first the primary issue was cost. Boarding schools were much more expensive than day scgools because of the cost of custodial care. In recent years the issue has becoming chnging attitudes toward bparding yonger children. Thus today day schools are a much more important part of the prep school community. The academic program is quite similar, although the boarding schools can offer more individual attention. The sports program is often quite different.
