Even a decade ago fathers wrote tuition checks but rarely participated in school life.

As they write their steep tuition checks, many families may wonder what they are paying for.

Answer: The kind of academic who sorely tempts parents to stop payment on their $40,000 tuition checks.

Not only that, their school friends are not limited to children whose parents can afford a $30,000 tuition check - an advantage that money cannot buy.

Once that tuition check clears, you're on your own.

Parents must bite their nails until they start writing the tuition checks.

His parents found this out when their tuition check for the fourth semester was returned with a note saying the student was not enrolled.

We have theoretically cashed many tuition checks, but the data has never been collected in one ledger.

When Augeri's tuition check for college bounced, he returned home to start a rock and roll band.

The school authorities in turn report that they had never received a tuition check for a Bunny Lake.