Another possibility here (and I don't necessarily present as a criticism, since I've looked into the possibility of doing something like this myself) is that the children go to the school on a scholarship, and their wealthy grandparents make substantial (tax-deductible, of course) contributions to the school every year.
I wuld NOT take anyone’s word for it that these kids are going to Park for $500 per year.
It is very rare for that kind of money to be given out at the middle school level.
Aha. Smart thinking there.
Another possibility is that one of the parents, or grandparents, is an alumnus or alumna of the Park School. That sometimes leads to preferential treatment. But I think your suggestion is more plausible.
In any case, this may all me moot, legally, since apparently Maryland requires no "asset test" for its SCHIP applicants. (And I'm not sure scholarships are considered assets.)
But taxpayers who can't send their kids to fashionable private schools are entitled to question why they should subsidize families who can.
Reilly told Malkin that he believed the Frost’s wealthy parents paid the childrens’ tuition at the Park School.
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That was always my most likely source of their school funds. However, it is possible that because of their “special needs” as a result of their head injuries, that the City of Baltimore public school funding is paying the tab at Park School - which happens to be located near where I live, about a 45-minute drive from their East Baltimore home.
It will be interesting to know where they went to school before the accident. There are not too many large trees that a black ice skid would have slammed into, in their neighborhood.