Percentage of Students on Financial Aid at Major Privates is Depressing

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Anonymous wrote:There should be no aid for private school

Having your kids never be regularly exposed to those who have less than them isn’t good preparation for college or the workforce.

Sure but there is no reason this has to happen in school. Kids do activities and have life experiences outside school.

Lololol. As if private school kids are going to join activities with the masses. 🤣🤣🤣

Mine do and have many friends from other schools. Where other kids go to school is really none of my business.

Mine too. They have a lot of friends and do plenty of extracurricular activities with kids who mostly attend public schools. 99% of the private school kids they know are the ones they go to school with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There should be no aid for private school

Having your kids never be regularly exposed to those who have less than them isn’t good preparation for college or the workforce.

So then send them to public if you need to expose them to those who have less. Or live in a different neighborhood. Do you hear yourself? I’m going to live in an exclusive neighborhood. I’m going to send my child to an elite, expensive school where they hand-pick a few well behaved non-wealthy children so mine are exposed to those who have less than they do so they don’t appear clueless and sheltered in college or in the workforce. News flash: your child will absolutely appear somewhat sheltered in interactions with non-elites. Even UMC public school students will.

Non elites? Very few kids in the DMV privates are “elite”. And the schools that are DCUM favorites usually try to pick the best kids to make up their student body. Kids don’t decide how much money their family has.

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Anonymous wrote:The true hypocrisy is not within private schools, which are quite generous, but actually in the public school systems that create high performing and low performing schools.

Multiple things can be true, in different ways and to different degrees, at the same time. Complex thought is not as elusive as it seems.

Do people find you this obnoxious in real life also?

If they are as unfocused and simple as you, then I kind of hope so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to figure out there OP's complaint. Is the complaint that local DMV schools don't have bigger endowments to fund more aid? Or that they, specifically, did not receive the aid they hoped for?

OP here. There's dismay at the numbers generally. There's dismay at the lack of commitment to building an endowment for financial aid (as opposed to tons of other things). There's dismay at the perpetuation of wide economic inequality and the continued stratification of a wider range of kids to relate to people who are different from them. There's dismay at the relatively low numbers compared to schools that have made similar commitments. I don't deny the endowment effect, but where is the endowment going? Why are you building the endowment? There are some schools raising tens of millions so they can have bigger gyms. The priorities, imo, are off. Especially in light of some of the stated missions of the schools.

I find this sentiment intriguing. You're trying to turn your favorite private into the diversity fantasy of your imagination. Which, to me, doesn't reconcile with the concept of an expensive private school. The funny thing is that if it did become what you hope for, it wouldn't be the privates any more but something else entirely. At that point might as well just go to a good public.

As it is, 20-25% of student body on financial aid seems normal for day private schools to me. In many ways it's pretty impressive it's this high.

With the condition that public school are in, especially in DC, there aren't as many good options for many families for a safe and solid education. I don't agree with how public schools are being reduced to nothingness all over, and in what poor shape they are here in DC. And there's only so much one can do to support public schools while also looking out for their own children's education. I did not grow up with a lot of money, and as an educator who sees the benefits of socioeconomic diversity for all students, as well as for giving those with less a better chance at a good education, this is a value I wish private schools took more seriously. You don't have to understand my experience, nor do you have to agree with my values. I explained why it's dismaying. You disagree based on your own different values. It's fine to disagree about what is impressive and what is not, based on those values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm terrified by the anti private school financial aid theme some posters are propagating.

What insecurity must you have to be frightened by the possibility of a vague stab at meritocracy.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re all pathetic. Which is why I laugh when the schools taut their “diversity.” What a joke. They’re schools for rich kids.

Someone has to overpay and donate $$$$ for any/all of that fin aid to be available. Math.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re all pathetic. Which is why I laugh when the schools taut their “diversity.” What a joke. They’re schools for rich kids.

Someone has to overpay and donate $$$$ for any/all of that fin aid to be available. Math.

You don’t have to worry about that at Basis and it’s the #1 school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be no aid for private school

I don't understand where you are coming from with that. Are you on the inside or outside?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The true hypocrisy is not within private schools, which are quite generous, but actually in the public school systems that create high performing and low performing schools.

Multiple things can be true, in different ways and to different degrees, at the same time. Complex thought is not as elusive as it seems.

Do people find you this obnoxious in real life also?

If they are as unfocused and simple as you, then I kind of hope so.

You stated what would be obvious to a small child and suggested it is a complex thought. Please move along.

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So much philanthropy is required to make this happen. Well done, these numbers are incredible!

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Anonymous wrote:GDS: 23.9%
Sidwell: 21%
Maret: 24%
NCS: 21%
STA: 29%

Rich kid schools are 3/4ths rich kids, someone call the Washington post

+1 these #s seem pretty good to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The true hypocrisy is not within private schools, which are quite generous, but actually in the public school systems that create high performing and low performing schools.

Multiple things can be true, in different ways and to different degrees, at the same time. Complex thought is not as elusive as it seems.

Do people find you this obnoxious in real life also?

If they are as unfocused and simple as you, then I kind of hope so.

You stated what would be obvious to a small child and suggested it is a complex thought. Please move along.

you misdirected the conversation and injected your agenda-driven what-about-ism. It's exhausting, and that's why you're being responded to negatively.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The true hypocrisy is not within private schools, which are quite generous, but actually in the public school systems that create high performing and low performing schools.

Multiple things can be true, in different ways and to different degrees, at the same time. Complex thought is not as elusive as it seems.

Do people find you this obnoxious in real life also?

If they are as unfocused and simple as you, then I kind of hope so.

You stated what would be obvious to a small child and suggested it is a complex thought. Please move along.

you misdirected the conversation and injected your agenda-driven what-about-ism. It's exhausting, and that's why you're being responded to negatively.

Who is exhausting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to figure out there OP's complaint. Is the complaint that local DMV schools don't have bigger endowments to fund more aid? Or that they, specifically, did not receive the aid they hoped for?

OP here. There's dismay at the numbers generally. There's dismay at the lack of commitment to building an endowment for financial aid (as opposed to tons of other things). There's dismay at the perpetuation of wide economic inequality and the continued stratification of a wider range of kids to relate to people who are different from them. There's dismay at the relatively low numbers compared to schools that have made similar commitments. I don't deny the endowment effect, but where is the endowment going? Why are you building the endowment? There are some schools raising tens of millions so they can have bigger gyms. The priorities, imo, are off. Especially in light of some of the stated missions of the schools.

I find this sentiment intriguing. You're trying to turn your favorite private into the diversity fantasy of your imagination. Which, to me, doesn't reconcile with the concept of an expensive private school. The funny thing is that if it did become what you hope for, it wouldn't be the privates any more but something else entirely. At that point might as well just go to a good public.

As it is, 20-25% of student body on financial aid seems normal for day private schools to me. In many ways it's pretty impressive it's this high.

With the condition that public school are in, especially in DC, there aren't as many good options for many families for a safe and solid education. I don't agree with how public schools are being reduced to nothingness all over, and in what poor shape they are here in DC. And there's only so much one can do to support public schools while also looking out for their own children's education. I did not grow up with a lot of money, and as an educator who sees the benefits of socioeconomic diversity for all students, as well as for giving those with less a better chance at a good education, this is a value I wish private schools took more seriously. You don't have to understand my experience, nor do you have to agree with my values. I explained why it's dismaying. You disagree based on your own different values. It's fine to disagree about what is impressive and what is not, based on those values.

The post is a long winded way of saying you want rich people to pay for your kids' education. Is there something wrong with taxpayers paying for your kids' education like they do for most kids? If DC schools don't work for you, easy solution. Move to the burbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to figure out there OP's complaint. Is the complaint that local DMV schools don't have bigger endowments to fund more aid? Or that they, specifically, did not receive the aid they hoped for?

OP here. There's dismay at the numbers generally. There's dismay at the lack of commitment to building an endowment for financial aid (as opposed to tons of other things). There's dismay at the perpetuation of wide economic inequality and the continued stratification of a wider range of kids to relate to people who are different from them. There's dismay at the relatively low numbers compared to schools that have made similar commitments. I don't deny the endowment effect, but where is the endowment going? Why are you building the endowment? There are some schools raising tens of millions so they can have bigger gyms. The priorities, imo, are off. Especially in light of some of the stated missions of the schools.

I find this sentiment intriguing. You're trying to turn your favorite private into the diversity fantasy of your imagination. Which, to me, doesn't reconcile with the concept of an expensive private school. The funny thing is that if it did become what you hope for, it wouldn't be the privates any more but something else entirely. At that point might as well just go to a good public.

As it is, 20-25% of student body on financial aid seems normal for day private schools to me. In many ways it's pretty impressive it's this high.

With the condition that public school are in, especially in DC, there aren't as many good options for many families for a safe and solid education. I don't agree with how public schools are being reduced to nothingness all over, and in what poor shape they are here in DC. And there's only so much one can do to support public schools while also looking out for their own children's education. I did not grow up with a lot of money, and as an educator who sees the benefits of socioeconomic diversity for all students, as well as for giving those with less a better chance at a good education, this is a value I wish private schools took more seriously. You don't have to understand my experience, nor do you have to agree with my values. I explained why it's dismaying. You disagree based on your own different values. It's fine to disagree about what is impressive and what is not, based on those values.

The post is a long winded way of saying you want rich people to pay for your kids' education. Is there something wrong with taxpayers paying for your kids' education like they do for most kids? If DC schools don't work for you, easy solution. Move to the burbs.

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