Do you know of any white families that get financial aid?
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Anonymous
Full pay, diverse families have many more options than someone needing heavy financial aid. And that also applies to white families. |
Anonymous
| Yes -- many white folks at Holton got financial aid -- we were NOT on FA-- wish we were! |
Anonymous
| hahahaha. Yes. What an asshole you are. |
Anonymous
Yuck |
Anonymous
| I have a follow up question thats been bugging me.... How the heck do people even qualify for financial aid at all?!?!? I mean gosh I'm not rich and I don't see a lot of houses out there cheaper than mine but I would have to literally delivering papers to qualify... |
Anonymous
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People talk about minorities receiving aid all the time. what's the issue here....
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Anonymous
The issue is that the OP is ignorant to the fact that white people don't get FA which is false. Hopefully OP has learned from the posts otherwise. |
Anonymous
| What an ignorant, racist, ridiculous question. |
Anonymous
This white teacher wishes she did! |
Anonymous
No, delivering papers pays about $6/hr or 12K a year. Income of 70K or less will qualify for significnat aid provided DC is accepted. In other words, teachers, gov't workers ( lower level), hill staffers, journalists, etc...The school chooses whether it wants a barbell FA program ( extremes of poverty and wealth balancing eachother out) or more moderate aid to more MC familes in the 100K and + range. Up to the school. Yes, to pp, some schools could admit only wealthy black people and meet all of their diversity needs without giving out a dime of FA. This is Washington and it is the 21st century. |
Anonymous
| sorry, meant to add, but that is NOT the point |
Anonymous
| The question really isn't that ridiculous and I'm not white. It is an honest question that requires the poster to examine her subconscious biases - don't be hard on her, just educate her. Let's be honest - and I'm not Republican bashing - the barely veiled references from the Romney camp about "governement programs" all imply that the only folks who benefit from all the Government "programs" (much like financial aid) are the black folks and the Obama administration is taking money (taxes) from hard working white folks to redistribute to the black folks. I get aid from one school - none from the other - and still write checks totaling over $41,000 annually. The socio-economic diversity they are attaining at these schools is not the haves and have nots ... it's the haves and the have mores ... sorry, that's a different soap box. |
Anonymous
| Do white people not work at Walmart? Target? Retail? Jobs outside of offices? Of course! Race won't matter much if the school your child is applying to does not grant aid though. |
Anonymous
| Yes white families with low income. not white middle income families and believe me we have searched high and low so you name callers give us info prove us wrong!!!! I am ashamed as a hard working self employeed TAX PAYER I had to google the same question!!! But that reality is a fact!!!! And I need answers |
Anonymous
White middle income family here, 90k HHI, more than 1 child. We are receiving generous FA from a "Big (whatever number)" school for DC. We live in PG County so our mortgage is very low by DCUM standards. We are frugal, DH and I work opposing shifts so there are no childcare expenses, vacations = camping/hiking trips. We're happy like that and probably wouldn't live much differently if we weren't paying tuition. We're grateful for the opportunity for our DC who is thriving and happy at school. Things are tight even with the FA, but we're making it work, we're incredibly grateful, and I'll be putting in an OT shift and giving those earnings to the annual fund this year. It will be small potatoes compared to what others can give, but it is important to us to give what we can manage there and invest in the school being able to give other children opportunities. There are absolutely middle class kids of all ethnicities receiving FA at our school and some of the other schools in this area. I don't know how the schools decide which kids to admit and offer FA to each year, but in our case and the case of a few other families we know with similar SES profiles it didn't have anything to do with race. We aren't URM in any sense. The only diversity we bring to the school is we work in fields that don't seem to be represented in the parent population very frequently. I can't imagine the school cared about that. So "that reality is a fact" = not so much. I do want to say that FA does not mean "free ride" for a middle class kid. In our experience they give right up to the EFC but you have to come up with that money, which is a big big number for us, but again, we make it work. It is not the case that you can only receive aid if you are an URM. That's an unfair myth people pass off as fact on this board. It implicitly and unfairly diminishes the value of the kids who happen to be URMs receiving aid; the kids in DC's class who fit that descriptor are very bright and great kids who got in on their own merit. It also discourages people from applying at all because they think it is a lost cause. |