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'Incredible' Privilege At Elite Prep Schools Like Those Kavanaugh And His Accuser Attended

The entrance to the Georgetown Preparatory School Bethesda, Md., is shown, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh spent most of his teen years at the preparatory school in the 1980s. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

The prep schools that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford attended in the ’80s are elite, exclusive and expensive — both Georgetown Prep and Holton-Arms School now cost upwards of $40,000 for a year’s tuition.

Alumni of those schools have signed letters of support for both Kavanaugh and Ford, with some saying they trust Kavanaugh’s character, and others saying the alleged assault sounds consistent with the school culture they remember.

‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with , a professor of education at Colby

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