That's how the whole thing strikes me.

152 students. $40 million. (To start?)

It's her money and good for the chosen girls.

For a few years anyway. And then what? The goal is they will live in a luxury most of us will never see and don't need and then go back to their villages and lead their people to a better life.

What a crock.

I hope I am wrong and one girl grows up to be the leader that changes life for all the poor in South Africa but is institutionalized luxury the way?

But Oprah gets to feel better about her childhood. And gets to give to kids who are so miserably poor that they are grateful for every scrap. Unlike those ungrateful American inner-city kids -- she's had it with them!

The school is just a vanity project run amok.

Nance