 During the summer of 1998, Gailer moved from Middlebury to Shelburne, Vermont, where it would rent a space from 1998 through 2006.At this time the Board of Trustees was controlled by parents from the greater Burlington area who did not want their own children to be inconvenienced by a long commute.Chaucer also believed at the time that replacing the less affluent Rutland County segment of the school population with more affluent students from greater Burlington would guarantee a steady source of revenue for the school.