complaining about private school tuition costs to public school parents

[Anonymous]

please just don't do it. And I will try to refrain from complaining about large class sizes, etc. to you.

[Anonymous]

Why? Complaining is a time-honored tradition

[Anonymous]

They are welcome to complain to me. And I will think to my self, in my quiet little brain, that I am not spending 70K/year and stressing myself out about it.

[Anonymous]

May I complain about housing costs in good public school zones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:May I complain about housing costs in good public school zones?

Sure. To other people in your good public school zone.

[Anonymous]

Having had children in public and private, I've experienced both sides of the coin and listen to all complaints with sympathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I complain about housing costs in good public school zones?

Sure. To other people in your good public school zone.

A single mom I know rents an apartment near a good ES. She has already identified the MS she wants for her kid, and will move and rent again when kid has to go to MS.

[Anonymous]

I don't mind the complaining as it makes me feel smarter for not sending my kids to private. crazy waste of money and probably hurts your child's chance of going to a decent university. Princeton will probably only accept one student from each elite private around here. chances are, your little Johnny isn't the one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having had children in public and private, I've experienced both sides of the coin and listen to all complaints with sympathy.

OP here. I'm sympathetic to both sides, too, really. There is just one woman in our neighborhood whose only topic of conversation is tuition tuition tuition. It's very tedious. I have an easy solution for her, but she's not interested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:please just don't do it. And I will try to refrain from complaining about large class sizes, etc. to you.

Why not? Do you find my complaints uninteresting? Do that hurt your feelings? Is it just because you cannot relate to them? I don't understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please just don't do it. And I will try to refrain from complaining about large class sizes, etc. to you.

Why not? Do you find my complaints uninteresting? Do that hurt your feelings? Is it just because you cannot relate to them? I don't understand.

Seriously? You're complaints are boring. They are more boring even than you telling me about the dream you had last night or the indigestion you have this morning. If you are choosing to stretch yourself to afford private school tuition (a choose that I do not share), then go complain to others who have made that choice. Or just accept your choice and suck it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please just don't do it. And I will try to refrain from complaining about large class sizes, etc. to you.

Why not? Do you find my complaints uninteresting? Do that hurt your feelings? Is it just because you cannot relate to them? I don't understand.

Seriously? You're complaints are boring. They are more boring even than you telling me about the dream you had last night or the indigestion you have this morning. If you are choosing to stretch yourself to afford private school tuition (a choose that I do not share), then go complain to others who have made that choice. Or just accept your choice and suck it up.

Meant to say "your"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having had children in public and private, I've experienced both sides of the coin and listen to all complaints with sympathy.

OP here. I'm sympathetic to both sides, too, really. There is just one woman in our neighborhood whose only topic of conversation is tuition tuition tuition. It's very tedious. I have an easy solution for her, but she's not interested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please just don't do it. And I will try to refrain from complaining about large class sizes, etc. to you.

Why not? Do you find my complaints uninteresting? Do that hurt your feelings? Is it just because you cannot relate to them? I don't understand.

Seriously? You're complaints are boring. They are more boring even than you telling me about the dream you had last night or the indigestion you have this morning. If you are choosing to stretch yourself to afford private school tuition (a choose that I do not share), then go complain to others who have made that choice. Or just accept your choice and suck it up.

Ok. But isn't it the same with almost every topic people discuss over the water cooler? Why a separate thread about this specific topic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please just don't do it. And I will try to refrain from complaining about large class sizes, etc. to you.

Why not? Do you find my complaints uninteresting? Do that hurt your feelings? Is it just because you cannot relate to them? I don't understand.

Seriously? You're complaints are boring. They are more boring even than you telling me about the dream you had last night or the indigestion you have this morning. If you are choosing to stretch yourself to afford private school tuition (a choose that I do not share), then go complain to others who have made that choice. Or just accept your choice and suck it up.

Ok. But isn't it the same with almost every topic people discuss over the water cooler? Why a separate thread about this specific topic?

because I suspect that sometimes private school parents complain to public school parents about tuition as a means of "keeping it real." i.e. "I might send my kid to a pricey school, but oh, it is SO painful to write that check. (See, I'm just like you!)"