DC privates educating suburban kids

[Anonymous]

I looked through the directory of a third, picked 9th grade as a sample: 50% DC addresses.

[Anonymous]

Urban myth or fact, world bank covers tuition cost for private school?

[Anonymous]

So, it looks like the agreement has broken down, no increase of fees for non residents, but a percentage of non residents allow in? What 10 percent non resident student and no financial aid?

[Anonymous]

How about this agreement? ... If your child can get admitted, she can attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about this agreement? ... If your child can get admitted, she can attend.

This. Plus stop whining. It's irritating.

[Anonymous]

Maybe the suburban kids are just plain smarter. After all, they have parents who knew enough to get the heck out of DC. Just kidding!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is silly. If you had your wish, some of the more competitive privates (i.e. Sidwell, NCS/STA, GDS, Maret) would actually become LESS competitive and lose prestige/standing, if they had to reserve the majority of their spots just for D.C. residents. They would have far fewer applicants to choose from and arguably have to lessen their standards to fill their classes. They would have fewer top students, less socioeconomic diversity and their national rankings would decline. The fact that they draw students from DC, MD and VA makes those schools all the more interesting and all the more competitive.

I know this topic has been brought up before, but this is just one thing that continues to irk me. Don’t DC privates have some responsibility to the city and its residents especially since most (if not all) are tax exempt entities. I remember Anthony Williams wasn’t too happy about this, and now I can totally see his point. Why isn’t there a tier system that will allow for qualified city children to get in first before taking in suburban kids (I’d feel better about this if we had a commuter tax but that is a different issue all together). This about scarce resources being given to people who don’t even live here. Don’t get me wrong, most of the kids and families are great but I’m tired of seeing qualified DC children losing out on their first or second choice schools that seem to be filled with suburban kids that come from areas with already good public schools. That’s not fair.

Nonsense. Plenty of smart kids in DC : children of IMF and WB officials, Ambassadors,who can pay full fare and plenty of children of Hill Legislative Aids, Journalistas,Foreign Policy wonks, CIA operatives, on and on many of whom would need FA. Problem is many need FA due to the competitive sport of raising tuition at DC privates and so the Privates can't fill their entire school with smart kids that need FA or they wouldn't be able to continue to raise teacher salaries, add to the school's infrastructure and endowment etc. Enter the full paying and heavy donating suburban family with three children packed into a Mercedes SUV coming over the Chain Bridge every morning.Some schools do take a higher percentage of kids form DC, for example WIS. I know this for a fact. Perhaps not too many people out in Arlington and Vienna speak French at home.

Wow. What about Maryland [Chevy Chase and Bethesda]? I regret sending my children to school in DC and not for any reasons quoted. There are too many snobby social climbing parents who enable their children. The sense of entitlement and easy access for many things results in negative behaviors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Urban myth or fact, world bank covers tuition cost for private school?

I think that the answer is yes but only if the parent employed by the WB is a foreign national. Definitely not that case that US citizens working for the WB get tuition covered.

[Anonymous]

I believe World Bank ended that benefit - only grandfathered families still get tuition paid. IMF still pays. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong - I got this info from families at my DC's school. There are a ton of World Bank/IMF families attending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about this agreement? ... If your child can get admitted, she can attend.

No. Go back to Reston or Vienna or McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
How about this agreement? ... If your child can get admitted, she can attend.



This. Plus stop whining. It's irritating.


yes ditto, you suburbans should stop whining!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, it looks like the agreement has broken down, no increase of fees for non residents, but a percentage of non residents allow in? What 10 percent non resident student and no financial aid?

Not the agreement (!) that broke down, it's the reasoning and accusations that DC schools don't take DC residents. Clearly they do. Next rationalization for why your particular child should get priority?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is silly. If you had your wish, some of the more competitive privates (i.e. Sidwell, NCS/STA, GDS, Maret) would actually become LESS competitive and lose prestige/standing, if they had to reserve the majority of their spots just for D.C. residents. They would have far fewer applicants to choose from and arguably have to lessen their standards to fill their classes. They would have fewer top students, less socioeconomic diversity and their national rankings would decline. The fact that they draw students from DC, MD and VA makes those schools all the more interesting and all the more competitive.

I know this topic has been brought up before, but this is just one thing that continues to irk me. Don’t DC privates have some responsibility to the city and its residents especially since most (if not all) are tax exempt entities. I remember Anthony Williams wasn’t too happy about this, and now I can totally see his point. Why isn’t there a tier system that will allow for qualified city children to get in first before taking in suburban kids (I’d feel better about this if we had a commuter tax but that is a different issue all together). This about scarce resources being given to people who don’t even live here. Don’t get me wrong, most of the kids and families are great but I’m tired of seeing qualified DC children losing out on their first or second choice schools that seem to be filled with suburban kids that come from areas with already good public schools. That’s not fair.

Nonsense. Plenty of smart kids in DC : children of IMF and WB officials, Ambassadors,who can pay full fare and plenty of children of Hill Legislative Aids, Journalistas,Foreign Policy wonks, CIA operatives, on and on many of whom would need FA. Problem is many need FA due to the competitive sport of raising tuition at DC privates and so the Privates can't fill their entire school with smart kids that need FA or they wouldn't be able to continue to raise teacher salaries, add to the school's infrastructure and endowment etc. Enter the full paying and heavy donating suburban family with three children packed into a Mercedes SUV coming over the Chain Bridge every morning.Some schools do take a higher percentage of kids form DC, for example WIS. I know this for a fact. Perhaps not too many people out in Arlington and Vienna speak French at home.

This post makes 0 sense. CIA operatives live in Va, Ive never heard of one living in DC, we all know that. There are very few LAs, policy wonks etc that can afford to live in the city except guys like Tucker Carlson and Brett Baier. THere are enough wealthy residents in DC to fill 100% of the top 10 privates(you can rank them).

I said CIA operative, not chief of mission and if you think Hill staffers don't live in DC, I quess you have no friends in Columbia Hghts , Mt P or Lincoln Park. either that, or perhaps you are a Republican.

[Anonymous]

what part of the word "private" don't you guys understand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what part of the word "private" don't you guys understand?

Great. Then make the schools pay taxes.