Anyone facing jealous friends now that your kids are in private school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am 0% jealous of friends with kids in private schools. Waving at them from my international vacation that I can afford because I'm not spending $40k a year on school.

You live around here at the point in time where we are just swimming in wealth and opportunities and you can’t do both? You have to choose and you are bragging about it. Wow.

IKR? Ugh, poors who think they are rich.

You think that people who are full-pay at $40k+ private schools AND can afford annual international vacations are poor?
Did you really just type that out and mean it?!?

So, what do you call public school parents who can’t afford both private school tuition and international vacations?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Only read this page, and yes, op, as demonstrated here, some people will be jealous or at least feel the need to justify their own choices or lash out at yours. Best to focus on whatever qualities you like about them, and not bring up the subject in the future.

This is a thread about public parents being jealous so we are responding that we are not jealous. We can afford to send our kids to private but we are staying at the local public. We are Asian American. Our highly regarded public is 30% Asian. I was always the token Asian when I was growing up and I want my children to be around others like them.

Sidwell is 14% Asian. Asians are over represented at Sidwell so tokenism isn’t an issue.

I also don’t believe that you can comfortably afford Sidwell’s tuition. That’s fine because most Americans cannot afford that school’s exorbitant price tag.

[Anonymous]

I am a new poster whose kids went to public school all the way through. And I was a Biglaw partner making $1 million a year. I didn’t want my kids going to school with a bunch of rich privileged kids. They had enough privilege already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am 0% jealous of friends with kids in private schools. Waving at them from my international vacation that I can afford because I'm not spending $40k a year on school.

You live around here at the point in time where we are just swimming in wealth and opportunities and you can’t do both? You have to choose and you are bragging about it. Wow.

IKR? Ugh, poors who think they are rich.

You think that people who are full-pay at $40k+ private schools AND can afford annual international vacations are poor?
Did you really just type that out and mean it?!?

So, what do you call public school parents who can’t afford both private school tuition and international vacations?

Poverty stricken, obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only read this page, and yes, op, as demonstrated here, some people will be jealous or at least feel the need to justify their own choices or lash out at yours. Best to focus on whatever qualities you like about them, and not bring up the subject in the future.

This is a thread about public parents being jealous so we are responding that we are not jealous. We can afford to send our kids to private but we are staying at the local public. We are Asian American. Our highly regarded public is 30% Asian. I was always the token Asian when I was growing up and I want my children to be around others like them.

Sidwell is 14% Asian. Asians are over represented at Sidwell so tokenism isn’t an issue.

I also don’t believe that you can comfortably afford Sidwell’s tuition. That’s fine because most Americans cannot afford that school’s exorbitant price tag.

We have a $2-3m HHI. We can afford private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 0% jealous of friends with kids in private schools. Waving at them from my international vacation that I can afford because I'm not spending $40k a year on school.

What are you talking about? Every private school family I know travels internationally at least once or twice a year. Sorry you can’t do both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a new poster whose kids went to public school all the way through. And I was a Biglaw partner making $1 million a year. I didn’t want my kids going to school with a bunch of rich privileged kids. They had enough privilege already.

Yes, you can learn some very bad entitled privileged behavior. No thank you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a new poster whose kids went to public school all the way through. And I was a Biglaw partner making $1 million a year. I didn’t want my kids going to school with a bunch of rich privileged kids. They had enough privilege already.

Yes, you can learn some very bad entitled privileged behavior. No thank you.

There's more socioeconomic diversity than you think, at least at our Big 3. Most of my son's friends have parents who are either feds, work in non-profits or the like (like us), or are teachers. They sacrifice to send their children private and one gets a discount since they teach at the school. Yes, there is a lot of privilege, but he is kept grounded at home and among his peer group and we reap the benefit of an outstanding education. We tried public, and it was a nightmare. Didn't realize how different it could be. No where is perfect, but wouldn't trade this for public.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I find it awkward with some friends so we just don’t talk about school much.

[Anonymous]

Public schools have become dreadful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I find it awkward with some friends so we just don’t talk about school much.

We are staying at public but when we were applying, I didn’t feel I could talk about it with our public school friends. For us, we had the option. Not everyone can afford it.

I have friends with children with special needs. I try not to mention my children’s achievements or even normal milestones since it may make them feel bad.

[Anonymous]

I think the pro-private school posters here are making a very compelling argument for avoiding private schools forever and ever

Way to play to typecasts. Good lord. No wonder your kids are annoying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the pro-private school posters here are making a very compelling argument for avoiding private schools forever and ever

Way to play to typecasts. Good lord. No wonder your kids are annoying

Look in the mirror, if you can afford one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the pro-private school posters here are making a very compelling argument for avoiding private schools forever and ever

Way to play to typecasts. Good lord. No wonder your kids are annoying

Why don’t you use that education to go back through the thread and count the number of silly insults that were lobbied at private school parents, not to mention passive aggressive digs, and compare? Far greater display of bad behavior on the oh so principled and virtuous public school side, caring only for math, science and college choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only read this page, and yes, op, as demonstrated here, some people will be jealous or at least feel the need to justify their own choices or lash out at yours. Best to focus on whatever qualities you like about them, and not bring up the subject in the future.

This is a thread about public parents being jealous so we are responding that we are not jealous. We can afford to send our kids to private but we are staying at the local public. We are Asian American. Our highly regarded public is 30% Asian. I was always the token Asian when I was growing up and I want my children to be around others like them.

Sidwell is 14% Asian. Asians are over represented at Sidwell so tokenism isn’t an issue.

I also don’t believe that you can comfortably afford Sidwell’s tuition. That’s fine because most Americans cannot afford that school’s exorbitant price tag.

We have a $2-3m HHI. We can afford private.

And I have a $10M HHI. Prove that I don’t. Do you see how that works?

You can’t afford private, and life goes on…