The $20,000 Jesuit Breakfast

It’s been called the $20,000 breakfast, at least that’s what we’d heard.

After scrimping and saving and tweaking our budget, we had come up with the $5,000 per year tuition to send our son to St. Paul’s High School, a Jesuit educational institution.

On the Friday before Mother’s Day of the graduation year, moms are treated to a morning of celebration. Although it was quite “hush, hush,” we had heard whispers about it from other moms who had been there. We had an idea of what to expect, but still we were not prepared. Gather 150 young men of seventeen and eighteen years on a hot and humid May day, dress them up in their finest attire, stuff them into a crowded, non-air-conditioned auditorium to sit beside their moms for more than three hours. It’s bound to be interesting.

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Photo is of sunnyside up eggs and bacon, but is not an actual picture of a $20,000 Jesuit breakfast