Dirty Little Secret-Financial Aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really none of the logic of the OP makes sense. Everyone makes "choices" so where do you draw the line? OP says divorce is a choice undeserving of FA even if family had been established full pay for a long time. What if one parent is killed - say they are a cop or secret service? Or what if they drove at night and a drunk driver hit them? By this logic they chose their profession or chose to drive at a time with more drunks on the road, so their kids should just suck it up and deal with switching schools while grieving, right? Or how about the child of a teacher at the school? Shouldn't have decided to teach OP's kid if you wanted the same education for your own child, huh? How about a "disadvantaged minority" being raised by a single mom? Guess she should have picked a richer dad if she wanted private school, right OP? I think OP must be a troll, but it's kind of a sad thing that I'm not 100% sure.

FYI -- being a minority DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE a "disadvantaged minority" I know, I know, this is shocking info to the DCUM community, right?!?

[Anonymous]

I raised the same point in a PP. At DC's school, minorities are members of the President's Cabinet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is up with all these anti financial aid maniacs on DCUM? Personally I'm glad schools have FA and that there is economic diversity. No one seems concerned about college FA. I'm glad that after someone gets divorced there kids can get FA. Sounds like the OP has a personal vendetta. OP- MYOB

The problem is that tuition is inflated to pay for the freeloaders, this holds true with college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I raised the same point in a PP. At DC's school, minorities are members of the President's Cabinet.

Of course.

And now that I think of it, divorced parents are part of the Board of Trustees at my child's school. Apparently, to people like OP, divorce is only a "social problem" if there is a change in the family's standard of living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
The problem is that tuition is inflated to pay for the freeloaders, this holds true with college

Of course! The best way for a school to maintain high academic standards is to turn away smart kids whose parents need FA, while only allowing in the rich - but sometimes kinda slow - kids who can pay full fare. That's a recipe for success for any academic institution. The nation's best universities and businesses trip over themselves to attract kids who attended country club schools that militate against all forms of economic and social diversity.

Social inbreeding is the wave of the future! All hail the Ayn Rand utopia of self-congratulatory mediocrity and intellectual complacency!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The problem is that tuition is inflated to pay for the freeloaders, this holds true with college

Of course! The best way for a school to maintain high academic standards is to turn away smart kids whose parents need FA, while only allowing in the rich - but sometimes kinda slow - kids who can pay full fare. That's a recipe for success for any academic institution. The nation's best universities and businesses trip over themselves to attract kids who attended country club schools that militate against all forms of economic and social diversity.

Social inbreeding is the wave of the future! All hail the Ayn Rand utopia of self-congratulatory mediocrity and intellectual complacency!!!

??

There are many articles and studies that have proven the reason college tuition has sky rocketed is because of federal grants and aid. This would hold true with any other pay for education system where subsidies are used to pay for those that can't afford it.

[Anonymous]

I am guessing the PP was objecting to the term "freeloaders" which implies kids on FA (in any school) are a drain on the institution while contributing nothing of value. FA kids often contribute to the academic reputation of a school while adding a different perspective and set of life experiences to classroom discussions. Of course there is a monetary pricetag on this, but many schools feel there is a real value to offering FA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing the PP was objecting to the term "freeloaders" which implies kids on FA (in any school) are a drain on the institution while contributing nothing of value. FA kids often contribute to the academic reputation of a school while adding a different perspective and set of life experiences to classroom discussions. Of course there is a monetary pricetag on this, but many schools feel there is a real value to offering FA.

This is proven by the mad rush of DCUM members to diverse neighborhoods. politically correct B.S. and everybody knows it....and lives it....but doesn't say it. Our society and economy has been morphed by this alternative reality....and is about to crumble....once reality raises it's ugly head all the nonsense will be swept aside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is proven by the mad rush of DCUM members to diverse neighborhoods. politically correct B.S. and everybody knows it....and lives it....but doesn't say it. Our society and economy has been morphed by this alternative reality....and is about to crumble....once reality raises it's ugly head all the nonsense will be swept aside.

Wow! This is fascinating stuff. Please expound on these thoughts. Define "alternative reality" and "reality", as I am sure the definitions of these terms may be unclear to some folks here who may remain unconvinced about how someone being born with a silver spoon firmly implanted up their ass makes them somehow more entitled to a private education than others who are smarter and work harder.

Ultimately, if the school is willing to set aside funds to offer FA to qualified candidates regardless of their background, it is up to them. If you don't like it, why are you bitching and moaning about it here to people who already think you're an ass? Take your money somewhere else - if anywhere else will have you. You'll be happy because you'll save all that hard-earned/inherited money that schools would otherwise waste on FA for kids who keep the school's rankings and test scores high. The school will be happy because - no matter how rich and deserving you perceive yourself to be - they're better off without self-centered, egotistical, little shits like you who frankly are a rank embarrassment to their institution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing the PP was objecting to the term "freeloaders" which implies kids on FA (in any school) are a drain on the institution while contributing nothing of value. FA kids often contribute to the academic reputation of a school while adding a different perspective and set of life experiences to classroom discussions. Of course there is a monetary pricetag on this, but many schools feel there is a real value to offering FA.

Sadly, at our kids' school, the "different perspective" is too often based on the fact that both mom and dad work at DOJ or on the hill, as opposed to only one parent working at DOJ or on the hill, and the other working at a lobbying firm, law firm or in successful banking. Not exactly the kind of sweeping diversity I was hoping for!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing the PP was objecting to the term "freeloaders" which implies kids on FA (in any school) are a drain on the institution while contributing nothing of value. FA kids often contribute to the academic reputation of a school while adding a different perspective and set of life experiences to classroom discussions. Of course there is a monetary pricetag on this, but many schools feel there is a real value to offering FA.

So you are implying that you need to have a minority population for your white kids amusement

[Anonymous]

Why not chargeca reduced reasonable rate and ask for donations to pay for fa. That seems fair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not nasty. Its the truth and people deserve to know. They also always apply for FAFSA and get it. Divorce is a social problem. Maybe I do have a chip on my shoulder but so what?? You can't get along with your husband and it becomes everyone else's problem? Give the money to a deserving minority, not someone who's parents used to have a $300K+ HHI. I'm not giving to the financial aid fund anymore.

You are so wrong and have indulged in so many stereotypes it is both pathetic and foul. You are obviously in need of a great deal of pity to live ins such a dark and ugly place.

First, in a divorce the children suffer the most. Why do you want to make it even worse for the children by making them switch schools as well as their home environment - basically take away everything they know? Why do you want to punish the children? They had nothing to do with the divorce and their lives have probably been pretty crappy lately.

How can you possibly characterize every divorce as "the wife not getting along with her husband"? What a disgusting, misogynistic and scarily naive statement.

Also, minorities are NOT the only ones or "every ones" who get financial, not by a long shot. There are LOTS of non-white people who do not need financial aid in ur private schools. There are also many high earning and even (gasp) inherited wealth non-white families in the Washignton, DC area. Financial aid at privates trends toward creating some economic diversity in this city and, frankly, children of divorce are usually vastly more underpriviledged economically than children in a two parent houshold. Just because a child lived at a higher socio-econ level earlier does not have anythign to do with current circumstances (when FA is applied for).

I am married and my parents are still married. I have no personal bias in favor of children of divorce. I do, howeveer, have a great deal of sympathy for them. "There but for the grace of God" and all, OP. Think about that for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing the PP was objecting to the term "freeloaders" which implies kids on FA (in any school) are a drain on the institution while contributing nothing of value. FA kids often contribute to the academic reputation of a school while adding a different perspective and set of life experiences to classroom discussions. Of course there is a monetary pricetag on this, but many schools feel there is a real value to offering FA.

So you are implying that you need to have a minority population for your white kids amusement

Not at all. Nowhere did that poster say FA = minority. Some FA students may be ethnic minorities. Some may not. Pretty much all of them represent the socioeconomic majority in this country though. Forgetting that the bulk of private school kids belonging to a very privileged *minority* in terms of socioeconomic status is probably a good argument in favor of FA. I'm not sure how the FA kids would "amuse" the "white kids" unless they think sharing a classroom with the child of one of their teachers is hilarious for some reason.

[Anonymous]

I guess my dc doesn't have a shot. Single mom that doesn't work on the hill. Glad I'm doing the lottery and applied to charters. If my dc doesn't get in, it's probably for the best.