What HHI for financial aid?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This idea that there is waste, fraud and abuse in private schools is pure lunacy. This isn’t some Government agency doling out millions.

The privates spend money on faculty and staff salaries and in maintaining their buildings and grounds.

Are you suggesting there are phantom employees getting paychecks?

You idea is ludicrous.

Not at all. The waste, fraud, and abuse is real. This is all accurate.

Where is it in these budgets?

Stop with the “conspiracy theories”!

[Anonymous]

If it’s a stretch for you, just apply for FA. The worst they can do is offer you nothing, but there’s no downside in asking and providing the required information. It’s all done through a secure third party site anyway. You never get what you don’t ask for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

We are a full pay family that also donates roughly $5K/year. I have absolutely zero resentment towards FA families, and am happy to help their kids attend the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

We are a full pay family that also donates roughly $5K/year. I have absolutely zero resentment towards FA families, and am happy to help their kids attend the school.

I had no problem with it either, until I became personally aware of the lavish lifestyle many of them have at our school. Luxuries that don’t make sense for a family on financial aid. It just doesn’t make sense for flashy displays of wealth to come from a family on financial aid. However, here we are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What other forms of grifting are you engaged in?

I don’t understand this response.

Just someone being nasty. Ignore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

We are a full pay family that also donates roughly $5K/year. I have absolutely zero resentment towards FA families, and am happy to help their kids attend the school.

I had no problem with it either, until I became personally aware of the lavish lifestyle many of them have at our school. Luxuries that don’t make sense for a family on financial aid. It just doesn’t make sense for flashy displays of wealth to come from a family on financial aid. However, here we are.

How do you know who's on FA?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

We are a full pay family that also donates roughly $5K/year. I have absolutely zero resentment towards FA families, and am happy to help their kids attend the school.

I had no problem with it either, until I became personally aware of the lavish lifestyle many of them have at our school. Luxuries that don’t make sense for a family on financial aid. It just doesn’t make sense for flashy displays of wealth to come from a family on financial aid. However, here we are.

How do you know who's on FA?

The parents themselves say so, and then parents chatter when it overlaps with high end vehicles, house renovations, and trips to Italy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

We are a full pay family that also donates roughly $5K/year. I have absolutely zero resentment towards FA families, and am happy to help their kids attend the school.

I had no problem with it either, until I became personally aware of the lavish lifestyle many of them have at our school. Luxuries that don’t make sense for a family on financial aid. It just doesn’t make sense for flashy displays of wealth to come from a family on financial aid. However, here we are.

Damn poors not looking poor enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

We are a full pay family that also donates roughly $5K/year. I have absolutely zero resentment towards FA families, and am happy to help their kids attend the school.

I had no problem with it either, until I became personally aware of the lavish lifestyle many of them have at our school. Luxuries that don’t make sense for a family on financial aid. It just doesn’t make sense for flashy displays of wealth to come from a family on financial aid. However, here we are.

Damn poors not looking poor enough.

A Mercedes G-class SUV is a bit over the top though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

That has nothing to do with saying that families looking for financial aid aren’t interested in supporting the school or the community. An absurd comment.

A prior poster here with about 300k income said a 20% tuition discount was not big enough.

The best way I know of measuring support to a school is in dollars.

Time is money. All the schools DC has attended have been extremely appreciative of the parent volunteers that make dozens of things possible, from teacher appreciation events to early-years holiday room parties to the parents who organize meals for the HS students staying at rehearsal until 8 pm for the play.

That happens everywhere, including public schools. Not the same as financial support but also appreciated.

Financial support also happens everywhere, including publics, even if your kid doesn’t go to the local public. Source: the fliers stuck in my door by students asking for donations or selling products in support of the local (Fairfax) public ES, MS, and HS drama departments, bands, and every individual sport under the sun. Some of which I do give money to, along with my kid’s private school.

Kids fundraising is not relevant at all here.

Sure it is. Who do you think disproportionately contributes? Other parents.

You’ve concocted some weird view where only full pay families can support the school through financial contributions and now you can’t get out of it.

The kids are fundraising for their hobbies at the school: some music group, sports team, or whatever rather than paying the normal activities fees. It is because the parents are cheap and are crowdsourcing their kid’s extracurricular costs. It is not contributing to the school at all.


There is a big difference. Private schools have a development office where $10-20M of the annual budget comes from donors.

Public schools have bake sales to raise money for the dance troop. This is instead of the parents just paying activities fees. Or fundraising for a class trip, rather than just charging the parents the cost of the trip.

There is no comparison.

There isn't a private school in the area with an annual fund anywhere close to $10-20M. There are a very few that are raising capital dollars in that range for specific projects.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would like to think my full pay tuition isn't financing wealthy families. But I know at least one that seems well off, has more than one property, a two kids in private and is getting financial aid, though I don't know how much.

It's a little disheartening to those of us who worked hard to pay off our mortgage early, drive older cars, don't take expensive vacations, and live within our means to be penalized for being frugal.

How do you know they get aid? I have no idea who gets aid at our school

They admitted it, though did not disclose the amount. It was the, "just make sure you list all your expenses, like your mortgages [plural]" that got me. Like, if you have multiple properties maybe you don't need financial aid? And because I see them frequently, I know the cars are nice and vacations are taken regularly.

But whatever. Obviously I'm not their accountant and it's not on me to police their applications. It just rankles.

Discussions like this is meaningless. Too many wealth in the DMV, those who got 10K financial aid and those who don't, are all very wealthy and privileged.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

We are a full pay family that also donates roughly $5K/year. I have absolutely zero resentment towards FA families, and am happy to help their kids attend the school.

I had no problem with it either, until I became personally aware of the lavish lifestyle many of them have at our school. Luxuries that don’t make sense for a family on financial aid. It just doesn’t make sense for flashy displays of wealth to come from a family on financial aid. However, here we are.

Damn poors not looking poor enough.

If you are claiming poverty, one would expect a modest lifestyle and not complaining about one vacation a year. I think my kids have been on maybe 4 vacations and are now teens. We are more concerned with saving for college and other necessities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community. Let them bargain shop elsewhere.

This comment makes zero sense.

I get it from a school budget perspective. Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families. Many are also donating on top of that.

We are a full pay family that also donates roughly $5K/year. I have absolutely zero resentment towards FA families, and am happy to help their kids attend the school.

I had no problem with it either, until I became personally aware of the lavish lifestyle many of them have at our school. Luxuries that don’t make sense for a family on financial aid. It just doesn’t make sense for flashy displays of wealth to come from a family on financial aid. However, here we are.

Damn poors not looking poor enough.

If you are claiming poverty, one would expect a modest lifestyle and not complaining about one vacation a year. I think my kids have been on maybe 4 vacations and are now teens. We are more concerned with saving for college and other necessities.

People with a 300k HHI applying for aid have never once claimed poverty.

[Anonymous]

So gs15 can anticipate?

[Anonymous]

Poor people should just pick themselves up by their boot straps even though the richers are cheating and rigging they system.