Be Honest: Would You Be Happy If You Paid Full-Price For an Elite School and Your Child Became an

[Anonymous]

Elementary School Teacher?

I currently live in another city, and there is a public elementary school here that is run in conjunction with a local elite university. From perusing LinkedIn and the school’s directory, most of the school’s faculty & staff have BAs and/or MAs from that elite school or a different one. This is a city public school, not a suburban one, so teachers are not well-paid.

Would you be bothered if your child ended up doing that?

[Anonymous]

Sure. It'd be fine with me. I'm not sending my kid to school so they get a high paying job. I'm sending them to the school for the experience they're getting while they are there.

[Anonymous]

My mother (a teacher) said I couldn't be a teacher if she paid for an elite school. She didn't want me to be a teacher at all, having been one herself.

[Anonymous]

I work in a city public school and am paid significantly more than my friends in the suburbs. They have to pay us more or nobody would work there.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure. It'd be fine with me. I'm not sending my kid to school so they get a high paying job. I'm sending them to the school for the experience they're getting while they are there.

Peak rich person moment

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher and told big of my kids they should not go into the field of education. Yes, it would bother me.

I also have the option to take classes free at several colleges and universities. There are plenty of teacher education programs now with subsidized tuition since it’s so hard to recruit teachers. If my kids really wanted to be a teacher and did this I would support them, after trying to discourage them.

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^my point is, are you sure they need to pay tuition at the elite school if they work for the district?

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Three of my six friends from an elite private that were full-pay became teachers and have had happy and fulfilling lives. They were honors graduates and terrific teachers.

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Not at all! I think teaching is one of the most important professions out there.

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My parents sent me to a big 3 and then I went to a highly regarded college. My mom was a school teacher and I think my parents were very proud that I chose to be a teacher. My hours and days off schedule aligned with my kids who are in the same school system which allowed me to spend a lot of time with them after school and on breaks which they know is good for their grandchildren.

Also, I bet my students and their parents appreciate that elite education.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure. It'd be fine with me. I'm not sending my kid to school so they get a high paying job. I'm sending them to the school for the experience they're getting while they are there.

I agree. But, I've got the $ for one private tuition (other kid went public) without hardship. We are at private because the crowded classrooms were not a good fit for this particular kid. I am being a bit more cost-aware for undergrad for my kid who wants to be a psychologist. That's a lot of graduate school and your BA could be from in state school just as well as from a more expensive private school. .

[Anonymous]

I’d be super proud . The people from Princeton who went into teacher eventually over into leadership or policy.

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^teaching

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I’d be proud.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. It'd be fine with me. I'm not sending my kid to school so they get a high paying job. I'm sending them to the school for the experience they're getting while they are there.

Peak rich person moment

Not pp, but yes if I have saved $80k/year to pay for college, I will not attach strings to it. I can afford it. However, if my kid wanted to be and education major, I would offer them the opportunity to go somewhere cheaper (that they still like) and gift them the difference upon graduation. But choice would be theirs