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Should financial aid in private school be stricter?
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Anonymous
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DC is at a private Catholic and I support FA for families with 3/4 kids, esp if they have shown they have a commitment to Catholic education from a Catholic K8. It is a long time to spend tuition over that time span.
I support this over the FA over athletics, but if there is true FA there, I have nothing against it. I would prefer it balances with FA for arts. I also have no issues with scholarships for high performing academics. But that is a long list of potential FA/ scholarships. I feel our school does this well most of the time. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| I think people like OP like to post things like this as a false morality signal. Mostly bc they don’t understand tuition is only 1 road block for truly poor kids attending private schools. It’s also obvious this type of person would lose their mind if a poor scholarship kid beat their kid in class ranking or top college admits. |
Anonymous
| This OP keeps on starting threads with a provocative question then insults anyone who disagrees with their original conclusion. Don’t feed the troll, there will be another one next week! |
Anonymous
See “Groupthink in private schools” and “is the cost of private schools justified?”. Both are from the same insulting and illogical OP. Note the signature use of AI, the 👆, and the consistent personal attacks if you don’t entirely agree with her assertion. Don’t waste your time responding to this person, you are shouting into the wind. |
Anonymous
Exactly. Don’t waster your time ☝️. |
Anonymous
Definitely! Poor kids don’t deserve the high quality education of private schools! |
Anonymous
It’s disgusting ! The OP trolls people that insult immigrants parents and people that don’t want poor children in their schools. Can you imagine? Yewwww. |
Anonymous
I forgot to mention that the OP is often sarcastic. |
Anonymous
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This is a really complicated issue that most people of means really don’t understand. Public school is set up and resourced to provide a social safety net that poor kids need. Things like free breakfast and lunch, free after care, school funded interventions for special needs that arise, free transportation, childcare during some breaks, free summer camp etc.
I’ve seen first hand through family members how much of a struggle it is to place a truly poor kid in an expensive private school. Most schools do not give full aid, and even in cases where a school gives 99% aid, a truly poor family will struggle to pay that 1% b/c they can barely keep the lights on. And that’s before they even can think about covering all those other services that I mentioned public schools provide. That’s not to say a poor kid cannot benefit from a private school education, but it’s a lot more complicated than people on this thread realize and if a school is going to take that on, it’s a much bigger commitment than just providing tuition. beyond financials, truly poor families are also going to be more likely to have other social issues like unstable housing that might impact the child’s ability to get to school. The parents are less likely to be highly educated and may not be able to help provide academic support themselves and at the same time, they also don’t have the resources to pay for tutors. People with means in private school have no idea the level of support the public school system provides to poor kids. It’s above and beyond what private schools provide. |
Anonymous
Really? |
Anonymous
Yes, I know it’s hard to believe that an adult would constantly turn to sarcasm and multiple posts in a row to make her argument but it’s true. |
Anonymous
Ha! I noticed that too. I wonder if he/she is also the Maret troll. |
Anonymous
It has to be Troll, because it doesn’t make sense that someone suggests that low income families should be prioritized for financial aid. How on earth you can think about that! |
Anonymous
Unbelievable…. |