Where did you get this information, or is this just what you assumed to be the case? |
Google is your friend ... or are you one of the 54% of Americans who has below a sixth grade literacy level? |
Weird. I googled this and it turns out financial aid wasn’t designed to get more POC into rich white schools, just like I had said. Guess you’re part of the 54%. |
NP. How about you provide a citation for your claim. Telling people to Google it doesn’t count. |
You didn't look far enough if you looked at all. |
Just provide your source. What do you even Google? “Why do private high schools offer financial aid”? “Why did private high schools start offering financial aid”? “When did private high schools start offering financial aid”? “What is the purpose of financial aid for private high schools”? None of that gets useful results. Post your source, or you’re full of sh!t. |
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Donors shouldn't give if they don't trust the school. You should trust them. The school doesn't benefit by giving financial aid where there's no value-add to the community.
The added value is giving aid to middle classed families? The school wants its student body to be representative of society at large. The community needs to be more a barbell of rich people and those you seem to need to think are charity cases. In this area, a family earning $200K cannot pay for two children to attend private school. But we need them in the community, so they get adjusted tuition. So, yes, donate. So that your children have friends all along the socio-economic spectrum and a diversity of backgrounds. Otherwise they're going to graduate with a very skewed perception of the world. |
| I think the concept of “adjusted tuition” is better language. Look at Grace Episcopal’s website- they have a beautiful model called Community Tuition. |
Tick tock, super literate Googler. We’re waiting. |
It was designed to attract price sensitive consumers (i.e. UMC families who could afford it if they stretched) to help fill out classes and to give the appearance of merit |
NP, but the first year I applied for FA, the office accidentally sent me responses to all the FA applicants in my child’s grade. Only the students of one racial group received aid. Everyone else did not. That was a year before the pandemic and BLM. |
| I understood that accident to be a message and did not apply again. If it was unintentional, that was a fat envelope to stuff by accident. |
Well what message did you take away? |
NP. I think that PP may have been full of shit. |
That I should not apply regardless of my income. |