Enough is enough

[Anonymous]

I love this forum. So many posters one would think are trolls are real people, like the aggressive anti-FA poster, who think these thoughts but would never speak them aloud in their social circle. Or actually say anything to the schools. Or better yet, in the current discussion, to their children’s teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love this forum. So many posters one would think are trolls are real people, like the aggressive anti-FA poster, who think these thoughts but would never speak them aloud in their social circle. Or actually say anything to the schools. Or better yet, in the current discussion, to their children’s teachers.

Where are they wrong?

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

NP here. Seek help. Please. But to be able to actually think and post those thoughts, there’s something so rotten at your core, that you’re likely unfixable.
To the teacher and police officer: thank you for your contribution to society and the amazing hard work you do to help all of us.

They can’t even pay their own bills and are relying on the school community to fund their children through financial aid.

They can go to public school. Problem solved.

That would solve the problem. They already rejected the taxpayer funded solution and want the school community to pay their bills instead.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I love this forum. So many posters one would think are trolls are real people, like the aggressive anti-FA poster, who think these thoughts but would never speak them aloud in their social circle. Or actually say anything to the schools. Or better yet, in the current discussion, to their children’s teachers.

Where are they wrong?

You mean where are you wrong?

Not even enough guts to stand behind your position on an anonymous forum?

Wow. Not a lot to be admired when you look in the mirror.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WES, St Pat’s, NPS all make 450 to 500k that’s insane 😳 with what the teachers get paid at these schools.

That’s crazy for those schools and a joke. One of them is losing students at an alarming rate. Wonder why?

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Anonymous wrote:WES, St Pat’s, NPS all make 450 to 500k that’s insane 😳 with what the teachers get paid at these schools.

That’s crazy for those schools and a joke. One of them is losing students at an alarming rate. Wonder why?

Which one?

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

I’m embarrassed for you.

I’m the private school teacher. I work 60+ hour weeks to make sure your child is ready for college. I comment on their frequent essays. I write their letters of recommendation. I go to conferences and trainings to make sure my lessons are as beneficial as possible. I sacrifice time with my own family to support yours.

And my husband? He puts himself in emotionally distressing situations all the time to make sure your community is safe. He saved a teen from a stab wound recently, keeping her alive until the paramedics came. He also performed a wellness check on an elderly grandmother, finding her in prolonged distress and getting her aid.

So, as you sit here and insult, let me inform you of something: your hate of others isn’t good for you or for this world. Find a way to come to peace with yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

I’m embarrassed for you.

I’m the private school teacher. I work 60+ hour weeks to make sure your child is ready for college. I comment on their frequent essays. I write their letters of recommendation. I go to conferences and trainings to make sure my lessons are as beneficial as possible. I sacrifice time with my own family to support yours.

And my husband? He puts himself in emotionally distressing situations all the time to make sure your community is safe. He saved a teen from a stab wound recently, keeping her alive until the paramedics came. He also performed a wellness check on an elderly grandmother, finding her in prolonged distress and getting her aid.

So, as you sit here and insult, let me inform you of something: your hate of others isn’t good for you or for this world. Find a way to come to peace with yourself.

Thank you for your service however you cannot afford private school. There is a mismatch.

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

I’m embarrassed for you.

I’m the private school teacher. I work 60+ hour weeks to make sure your child is ready for college. I comment on their frequent essays. I write their letters of recommendation. I go to conferences and trainings to make sure my lessons are as beneficial as possible. I sacrifice time with my own family to support yours.

And my husband? He puts himself in emotionally distressing situations all the time to make sure your community is safe. He saved a teen from a stab wound recently, keeping her alive until the paramedics came. He also performed a wellness check on an elderly grandmother, finding her in prolonged distress and getting her aid.

So, as you sit here and insult, let me inform you of something: your hate of others isn’t good for you or for this world. Find a way to come to peace with yourself.

Thank you for your service however you cannot afford private school. There is a mismatch.

I’m the previous poster that called you rotten to the core. You have a warped understanding of why financial
aid and tuition assistance exists, and what the mission of most independent schools is. In the case of the teachers at your school, they are granted significant aid and tuition assistance because they are underpaid, especially compared to public schools. The ability to bring their children to the school at which they work and give them the same kind of education they are giving to your precious children is exactly why the schools treat them as well as they do and why you are giving financial aid. Don’t like it? Leave.

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

I’m embarrassed for you.

I’m the private school teacher. I work 60+ hour weeks to make sure your child is ready for college. I comment on their frequent essays. I write their letters of recommendation. I go to conferences and trainings to make sure my lessons are as beneficial as possible. I sacrifice time with my own family to support yours.

And my husband? He puts himself in emotionally distressing situations all the time to make sure your community is safe. He saved a teen from a stab wound recently, keeping her alive until the paramedics came. He also performed a wellness check on an elderly grandmother, finding her in prolonged distress and getting her aid.

So, as you sit here and insult, let me inform you of something: your hate of others isn’t good for you or for this world. Find a way to come to peace with yourself.

Thank you for your service however you cannot afford private school. There is a mismatch.

This is ultimately what people are saying. Why have we as a society created an educational product that only some can afford. And then try to help that with financial aid, but on the backend want to require donations from everyone. Everyone couldn't afford the product to begin with, what makes people think they can now afford donation. Further, while HOS take on immense responsibility and deserve an appropriate salary, how can some of thes HOS salaries be so so much more than say what the principal of a public HS with more students, or the Superintendent of our local public school systems.

Examples:
LAUSD - $440,000
FCPS - $4424,146
MCPS -$360,000

What are these HOS doing to command such high salaries? Yes, I know its what the market will bear, but people are not wrong to question if it is artificially inflated nor are they wrong to do things like lower donations to stop it go further and potentially reversing.

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

I’m embarrassed for you.

I’m the private school teacher. I work 60+ hour weeks to make sure your child is ready for college. I comment on their frequent essays. I write their letters of recommendation. I go to conferences and trainings to make sure my lessons are as beneficial as possible. I sacrifice time with my own family to support yours.

And my husband? He puts himself in emotionally distressing situations all the time to make sure your community is safe. He saved a teen from a stab wound recently, keeping her alive until the paramedics came. He also performed a wellness check on an elderly grandmother, finding her in prolonged distress and getting her aid.

So, as you sit here and insult, let me inform you of something: your hate of others isn’t good for you or for this world. Find a way to come to peace with yourself.

Thank you for your service however you cannot afford private school. There is a mismatch.

I’m the previous poster that called you rotten to the core. You have a warped understanding of why financial
aid and tuition assistance exists, and what the mission of most independent schools is. In the case of the teachers at your school, they are granted significant aid and tuition assistance because they are underpaid, especially compared to public schools. The ability to bring their children to the school at which they work and give them the same kind of education they are giving to your precious children is exactly why the schools treat them as well as they do and why you are giving financial aid. Don’t like it? Leave.

If financial aid is being funneled to teachers as an employment benefit, that is probably a good use of it.

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

I’m embarrassed for you.

I’m the private school teacher. I work 60+ hour weeks to make sure your child is ready for college. I comment on their frequent essays. I write their letters of recommendation. I go to conferences and trainings to make sure my lessons are as beneficial as possible. I sacrifice time with my own family to support yours.

And my husband? He puts himself in emotionally distressing situations all the time to make sure your community is safe. He saved a teen from a stab wound recently, keeping her alive until the paramedics came. He also performed a wellness check on an elderly grandmother, finding her in prolonged distress and getting her aid.

So, as you sit here and insult, let me inform you of something: your hate of others isn’t good for you or for this world. Find a way to come to peace with yourself.

Thank you for your service however you cannot afford private school. There is a mismatch.

I’m the previous poster that called you rotten to the core. You have a warped understanding of why financial
aid and tuition assistance exists, and what the mission of most independent schools is. In the case of the teachers at your school, they are granted significant aid and tuition assistance because they are underpaid, especially compared to public schools. The ability to bring their children to the school at which they work and give them the same kind of education they are giving to your precious children is exactly why the schools treat them as well as they do and why you are giving financial aid. Don’t like it? Leave.

They underpay the teachers relative to public schools, but give them access to an education system that most parents/families can't access. And that's considered treating them well? And that reasons why every should give a donation above what they pay in tuition?

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Tuition is artificially inflated as well. Wealthy people want to think they are getting something exclusive. If too many people can afford it, then it and they and their children are just not special enough.

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

I’m embarrassed for you.

I’m the private school teacher. I work 60+ hour weeks to make sure your child is ready for college. I comment on their frequent essays. I write their letters of recommendation. I go to conferences and trainings to make sure my lessons are as beneficial as possible. I sacrifice time with my own family to support yours.

And my husband? He puts himself in emotionally distressing situations all the time to make sure your community is safe. He saved a teen from a stab wound recently, keeping her alive until the paramedics came. He also performed a wellness check on an elderly grandmother, finding her in prolonged distress and getting her aid.

So, as you sit here and insult, let me inform you of something: your hate of others isn’t good for you or for this world. Find a way to come to peace with yourself.

Thank you for your service however you cannot afford private school. There is a mismatch.

I can afford it because the school gives me aid.

Why should the tremendous education private schools provide NOT be available to the very people providing it?

I’m not going to contribute to a school community unless my own children can benefit. Otherwise, I’m taking my success, my experience, and my advanced degrees elsewhere. And that’s absolutely reasonable. PP, who do you want teaching your children? People invested in the community or people shunned by it?

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Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.

Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.

The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.

This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.

Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.

The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.

Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.

Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?

At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.

Forced? Really?

You mean, like, at gunpoint?

If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.

+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.

If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.

Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.

If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.

Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.

Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.

If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid

Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.

Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️

Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?

You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?

Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.


For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.

Our family receives financial aid. My husband and I both pursued “underpaid, leisurely jobs” so I guess we can’t be “real adults.”

I’m a private school teacher and he’s a police officer.

Such silly, pointless professions.

Actually those are good examples of low work hour and low effort jobs. As a private school teacher, part of your compensation should be a tuition discount so why would you need financial aid on top of that?

You should really try to boost your income so you can get off financial aid. In addition, shame on the both of you. I work 80 hours a week to support your barely 40 hour job.

I’m embarrassed for you.

I’m the private school teacher. I work 60+ hour weeks to make sure your child is ready for college. I comment on their frequent essays. I write their letters of recommendation. I go to conferences and trainings to make sure my lessons are as beneficial as possible. I sacrifice time with my own family to support yours.

And my husband? He puts himself in emotionally distressing situations all the time to make sure your community is safe. He saved a teen from a stab wound recently, keeping her alive until the paramedics came. He also performed a wellness check on an elderly grandmother, finding her in prolonged distress and getting her aid.

So, as you sit here and insult, let me inform you of something: your hate of others isn’t good for you or for this world. Find a way to come to peace with yourself.

Thank you for your service however you cannot afford private school. There is a mismatch.

I can afford it because the school gives me aid.

Why should the tremendous education private schools provide NOT be available to the very people providing it?

I’m not going to contribute to a school community unless my own children can benefit. Otherwise, I’m taking my success, my experience, and my advanced degrees elsewhere. And that’s absolutely reasonable. PP, who do you want teaching your children? People invested in the community or people shunned by it?

What percent of the financial aid budget do you think goes to faculty and staff? Just curious how this works.