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Are current economic conditions causing you to rethink your applications to area private schools?
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Anonymous
| Just curious how people feel the economic climate is or is not impacting their decision to apply to private schools this year. |
Anonymous
| We are skipping the Pre-K year and if things do not improve next year we may start her off in public for her K year and see how it goes. Its hard to justify $30 k for pre-K when your investments are down 30% and you are not sure if job will be around a year from now. |
Anonymous
| Yes, we are in Bethesda, and we will be looking long and hard at the local, excellent elementary. |
Anonymous
| I was fortunate to come into a lot of money right as all this stuff was beginning, and I didn't have time yet to invest it and thus lose it. I'm frankly jumping on the opportunity to get into private school at a time when applications might be down. |
Anonymous
| Hard to justify the money if you live in one of the best school districts in the nation. So, yes, we're rethinking it. |
Anonymous
| I think that the people who are really going to get screwed this year are the ones who cannot afford private school or qualify for financial aid and were instead planning to apply out-of-boundary at some of the better school districts. I think a lot of those elementary schools slots will not be available for the 2009-2010 school year. People in the middle always gets squeezed the hardest! |
Anonymous
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I'd hoped to apply, but I realized back in march that things were not lining up well....
And I can't move to a better school district either |
Anonymous
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I'm a writer for The Washingtonian magazine working on a story about private school tuitions. I'd love to talk to parents about some of the topics discussed in this forum. If you have a story to tell about putting your kids through private schools in Washington—why you do it, what your children have gotten out of it, the financial sacrifices you've made to pay tuition—please feel free to contact me. I would be more than happy to leave names out of the article.
Mary Clare Fleury mfleury@washingtonian.com |
Anonymous
| Not applying this year because of money. But we feel good about it, and we're not in a great public district. But we feel as though we were forced to jump off the competitiveness wheel-- living a regular life with regular people is probably better for us and our kids, even if our salaries mean we could afford (barely) the private tuitions. |
Anonymous
| bump |