Comments on: David Duchovny Opens Up About Family’s Move to NYC

By: stephanie

stephanie — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:21:48 +0000

LOL, I knew immediately that they were single sex schools even though I’ve never heard of them. I guess I did learn something watching Gossip Girl!

By: Sadie

Sadie — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:28:26 +0000

I was thinking the same thing, Mel. Money and celebrity mean nothing with getting your kids into schools like these. Being an “old boy”, on the other hand, is the golden ticket.

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:22:20 +0000

Keep in mind most schools also have legacy programs. These programs allow/welcome kids whose parents also attended the school.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:45:17 +0000

Whoops, sorry for typos – was typing with one hand! I used to work in a fee-paying selective school, whereby you get in on academic merit in the first instance, and it wouldn’t surprise me if these schools are selective. David’s a very intellectually smart person and he got in on a busary which tends usually to mean a school that’s academic and helps out those who can’t afford to be supported in their studies there. Don’t know for sure, but it’s a possibility.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:40:44 +0000

Curiostity is one thing, but why the judgemental tone of some people?? Come on, it’s no-one’s business but the family can clearly afford the fees, in part or in full, who knows, but they can otherwise their children wouldn’t be able to go there. It’s a fee paying school. I think it’s lovely and speaks volumes about David and Tea and where their values lay that they moved back to the native New York – and enrolled their children in the schools they themselves attended. In David’s case, his mother was a teacher at his school, his sister certainly used to be, and he and Tea got married in the school grounds. They’re obviously a family-orientated family and I can’t understand why they’re isn’t support for that!!

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:49:35 +0000

acutally – when david went to school (over 20 years ago) the school fees were more modest. that’s the same for many schools.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:26:12 +0000

Tigmode, most people I know have three names, a first name middle name and last name, but they usually just get called by one of those names for short. Really, I think you’re being a little ridiculous. David and Tea’s kids also have a first middle and last name and they do go by one of those names.

By: Hey

Hey — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:59:39 +0000

Their kids go by their middle names because it’s a tradition. Tea goes by her middle name so that is why.

By: Tigmode

Tigmode — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:55:47 +0000

I don’t understand naming your kids something you have no intention of calling them, but to each his own I guess.

By: SAR

SAR — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:47:09 +0000

Alice, what I meant is that David got into Collegiate via a scholarship, due to his academic gifts. That was the same way he got into Princeton, although by then the scholarship was athletic as well as academic — he was a star player on Collegiate’s basketball team.

My parents both came from families that were far from rich, and they both got into Stanford — which was where they met each other — on scholarships. My father’s was both academic and athletic, my mother’s was wholly academic.