Hello everybody.
You told Mom that in our town, with taxes 'so high the school may as well be prep', they couldn’t have a valedictorian who’s only planning to take a class or two at the local junior college when that other girl is on her way to the Ivy League.
Would you please tell me what 'high the school may as well be prep' mean?
Thanks so much.
Jamal 1315 Would you please tell me what 'high the school may as well be prep' mean? "Prep" school is an alternative to high school. The parents pay a lot of money to a private institution to "prepare" their children for college.
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
Jamal 1315Would you please tell me what 'high the school may as well be prep' mean?
"Prep" school is an alternative to high school. The parents pay a lot of money to a private institution to "prepare" their children for college. In this town, parents were paying so much school tax that it amounted to what they would have paid if they had sent their children