DC privates educating suburban kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Great. Then make the schools pay taxes.

LOVE THIS! Let's see, you want "DC" privates to educate DC kids. How about DC-based privates pay their full freight in property taxes (to the tune of millions of $$ per year), maybe that's a start. That way, even if your DC kid doesn't get into the private, you can direct those additional tax $$ toward the education of DC kids. It's a start.

Why not up the ante even more and impose a "millionaire tax" or some other "tuition tax" on top of tuition at these schools and direct all of that $$ to the education of DC kids.

[Anonymous]

I think the parents, as part of the applicationprocess, must pass a driving test, if they can't parallel park, they are rejected!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I think the IMF pays about 70%; the family pays the rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the parents, as part of the applicationprocess, must pass a driving test, if they can't parallel park, they are rejected!

Driving is so suburban. How 'bout extra points if you can/will get the kid to school without using a car?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the parents, as part of the applicationprocess, must pass a driving test, if they can't parallel park, they are rejected!

Driving is so suburban. How 'bout extra points if you can/will get the kid to school without using a car?

As long as I can keep sending my suburban kid to school on the metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Great. Then make the schools pay taxes.

LOVE THIS! Let's see, you want "DC" privates to educate DC kids. How about DC-based privates pay their full freight in property taxes (to the tune of millions of $$ per year), maybe that's a start. That way, even if your DC kid doesn't get into the private, you can direct those additional tax $$ toward the education of DC kids. It's a start.

Why not up the ante even more and impose a "millionaire tax" or some other "tuition tax" on top of tuition at these schools and direct all of that $$ to the education of DC kids.

Once again, ALL NONPROFITS QUALIFIED BY THE IRS DO NOT PAY TAXES, regardless of the GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS OF THEIR MISSION. Why are people continuing to argue about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Great. Then make the schools pay taxes.

LOVE THIS! Let's see, you want "DC" privates to educate DC kids. How about DC-based privates pay their full freight in property taxes (to the tune of millions of $$ per year), maybe that's a start. That way, even if your DC kid doesn't get into the private, you can direct those additional tax $$ toward the education of DC kids. It's a start.

Why not up the ante even more and impose a "millionaire tax" or some other "tuition tax" on top of tuition at these schools and direct all of that $$ to the education of DC kids.

Once again, ALL NONPROFITS QUALIFIED BY THE IRS DO NOT PAY TAXES, regardless of the GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS OF THEIR MISSION. Why are people continuing to argue about this?

At the federal level. We're talking about the state level, idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once again, ALL NONPROFITS QUALIFIED BY THE IRS DO NOT PAY TAXES, regardless of the GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS OF THEIR MISSION. Why are people continuing to argue about this?

At the federal level. We're talking about the state level, idiot.

Yeah, we are. And private schools are tax exempt at a state level, you idiot.
http://otr.cfo.dc.gov/otr/frames.asp?doc=/otr/lib/otr/collections_division/fr-164_rev12-07applicationpackage.pdf

[Anonymous]

To the PP's rejoinder, I will add that, as is true on the federal level, the law is one of general applicability. Non-profits of all sorts qualified under IRS regs are not taxed under DC law (or the laws of any state); doesn't matter what they do or for whose benefit. But by all means continue your "lobbying" campaign via bitter posts on DCUM, lol--I'm sure popular outrage in DC will mirror that seen on the streets of Cairo, lol . . .

[Anonymous]

Now is a great time to BUMP this thread.

Any District families excluded from schools of your choice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now is a great time to BUMP this thread.

Any District families excluded from schools of your choice?

A "great time" to bump a completely ridiculous thread? And by "excluded" don't you simply mean that the kid applied and the kid didn't make the cut? Geesh.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps the suburban kids from Montgomery County are smarter than the DC kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now is a great time to BUMP this thread.

Any District families excluded from schools of your choice?

No, both schools my DCs attend include DC residents. In fact, I don't know of any private schools, in DC, MD, or VA, that do not accept children who live in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now is a great time to BUMP this thread.

Any District families excluded from schools of your choice?

No, both schools my DCs attend include DC residents. In fact, I don't know of any private schools, in DC, MD, or VA, that do not accept children who live in DC.

Maret has a 55% of its student body from DC and only like 10% from across the chain bridge, 30% MD ( I think) and the rest international.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now is a great time to BUMP this thread.

Any District families excluded from schools of your choice?

No, both schools my DCs attend include DC residents. In fact, I don't know of any private schools, in DC, MD, or VA, that do not accept children who live in DC.

Maret has a 55% of its student body from DC and only like 10% from across the chain bridge, 30% MD ( I think) and the rest international.

I would question those numbers.