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...denial, which was printed in the Belmont Herald, disappointed some Belmont citizens who are still dissatisfied with the town's school system...
Joann Pinck, dean of studies at Pine Manor Junior College, had praised Bok in a letter to the editor of the Belmont Citizen for having the "courage" to criticize the school system...
...made his comments about the Belmont schools when a reporter asked him why he had sent his two older children to private school...
Pinck said yesterday that Belmont's school system, although it has improved since 1964, is still "very conservative." Bok said that he is "not qualified to judge the system as it exists today...
...Boston, for example, the Belmont Hill School has experienced a sharp increase in applications, probably at the expense of surrounding boarding schools such as Middlesex, St. Mark's, and Brooks. At the Riverdale School, outside New York City, there has been "quite a swelling of applications," according to admissions director Cleaver Foubes, who added, "Hardly anybody goes away to school anymore...