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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.

It varies by year, I’m guessing. Our children don’t get guaranteed admission. And some years there are a couple teachers’ kids, and other years have none. I know it’s a small percentage, though. Far more money goes to general financial aid, benefiting students from lower income families.

I’m a huge supporter of financial aid, and I contribute multiple times a year to our annual fund. I know what I contribute is small compared to others, but as a percentage of income it’s a decent amount. I figure I’m giving back to a school that has been great for my own kids. We all play our part.