they needed to react to the immediate threat and didn't have time to make long-term plans

This. Plus Burt's protectiveness of Kurt. Plus the producers want to increase the tension between McKinley and Dalton, plus increase Blaine's role at the same time.

I doubt the school is supposed to be a $30,000 school - very few private schools in the country actually cost that much. Prep schools on the Upper East Side of Manhattan run that, as do boarding schools like the one you linked to in the Northeast, but in most of the middle of the country they are not that high.

The schools I'm applying to teach for in the Nashville area run between $10,000 and $20,000. A cursory glance at a couple of OH schools, to best compare to Lima, show a similar range. Kurt's new school appears likely to be on the high end of that, but many schools offer pretty good financial aid to students who impress them, so he has a good chance at a scholarship that will make a serious difference. I know at my current school more than 60% of students receive some financial aid - that's higher than most, as it's a religious school and draws funding from people specifically supporting Jewish education, but most schools offer something.

Also, he may be getting some consideration for joining the Warblers. If they really are "rock stars", then the choir director may have some pull/scholarship money to offer.

It still bugs me that we're expected to believe that Burt owns a 1 bedroom house.

It still bugs me that we're expected to believe that Burt owns a 1 bedroom house.

But it didn't bug that Buffy could afford to buy a new cashmere pashmina every week, and had enough fancy leather to suit up the entire Folsom Street parade?

It still bugs me that we're expected to believe that Burt owns a 1 bedroom house.

Maybe they moved after Kurt's mom died? And because they were so distraught, he thought that the basement would be good enough for Kurt?

ow!

Sorry, I hit myself in the head with all of the hand waving.

Or that a high school could do a dance number with real pouring rain?

Or that a high school could do a dance number with real pouring rain?

No less realistic than thinking that even a Broadway stage would be big enough to handle a musical number choreographed by Busby Berkeley.

Which is why Glee often feels like such an odd duck of a musical. One minute, we're in "ignore the plot, just enjoy the music" land. Next minute, we get a serious social issue as Karofsky threatens Kurt again.

I am so tired of Rachel/Finn drama that I could cry real tears.

Why did New Directions get two numbers and everyone else got one? It wasn't even a mashup, it was two numbers.