Employers paying private school tuition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a World Bank employee who moved abroad and enrolled their kids in American boarding school with nearly all the tuition paid off.

Damn! That's a sweet gig.

Really? It's very normal when sending employees to a developing country to either pay for the kids to be in a private school or, if good local schooling options are not available, pay for them to stay in a boarding school. People won't take those postings if the education of their children is going to suffer. This is particularly the case with more senior positions as those staff are likely to be older and have children. Also, don't forget taking an overseas posting may also mean a spouse leaving a job and losing the family losing that second income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State department will pay for tuition at an approved school for private overseas k-12 grades, including transportation. It's not a taxed. If there is not a school deemed "acceptable" at your post then they will pay something towards school elsewhere including boarding school- the amount paid varies by post.

My friend has 4 kids and they work for the US embassy in a low-cost country in Asia. The "American" school, which is private, charges about $35k/year which is a huge sum there (they pay their full-time live-in maid $300/month by comparison). The US gov't pays for all the kids to go to that school.

The difference is they in fact are expats, sometimes hardship positions.
By contrast, these folk in DMV have made lives here at no tax and no benefit to anyone but themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again, G4 visa holders (the only ones getting the school benefits at international organizations) don’t pay income taxes… why is it so hard to understand? It is not tax fraud if you don’t pay income taxes.

Green card holders working for the WB don't pay income taxes either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if this is partly how WIS attracts so many international families?

No, it is not. The school gives no benefits, employers do. WIS attracts foreigners because of the IB program, language immersion and overall environment of the school.

Not quite. I know a number of people who said they would have sent their kids to the public (Montgomery
Co) b/c WIS would objectively not be worth it without the IMF benefit. They would see it differently for SIdwell or GDS.

As for the World Bank, the benefit did not stop in 1998; it stopped for those who joined after 1998. I know women in 2nd marriages to old geezers with pre-1998 benefits enjoying the full tuition benefit for their kids (college too, yes). Shocked no one ever sued. I’ve been assured there’d never been less useful
and more loyal corporate yes-men generation as the tuition went up.

I think it’s ok as long as we stop automatically approving their Green Cards following a lifetime of no tax and free schooling. There are so many amazing young immigrants with talents for us to spend the visa allotment on rather than the people who’ve sucked the system dry for decades with no taxation and can barely use MS Office and then apply for the GC before retiring when about to use the Medicare. Plus so many tried to divorce the first wives in the “home country” leaving them destitute that the FBI had to step in.

The benefit went away a long time ago so most eligible people are nearing retirement.

Not sure why you feel these people sucked the system dry when Americans abroad enjoy similar packages.

[Anonymous]

Truth hurts. 😂

[Anonymous]

Easily rumbled and rattled. Where there’s smoke…
Hahaha 🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a World Bank employee who moved abroad and enrolled their kids in American boarding school with nearly all the tuition paid off.

Damn! That's a sweet gig.

Really? It's very normal when sending employees to a developing country to either pay for the kids to be in a private school or, if good local schooling options are not available, pay for them to stay in a boarding school. People won't take those postings if the education of their children is going to suffer. This is particularly the case with more senior positions as those staff are likely to be older and have children. Also, don't forget taking an overseas posting may also mean a spouse leaving a job and losing the family losing that second income.

I had a roommate in college whose parents' placements changed a bunch, so she just went to a boarding school in Europe from age 13 onward. I always thought that was kinda neat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if this is partly how WIS attracts so many international families?

No, it is not. The school gives no benefits, employers do. WIS attracts foreigners because of the IB program, language immersion and overall environment of the school.

Not quite. I know a number of people who said they would have sent their kids to the public (Montgomery
Co) b/c WIS would objectively not be worth it without the IMF benefit. They would see it differently for SIdwell or GDS.

As for the World Bank, the benefit did not stop in 1998; it stopped for those who joined after 1998. I know women in 2nd marriages to old geezers with pre-1998 benefits enjoying the full tuition benefit for their kids (college too, yes). Shocked no one ever sued. I’ve been assured there’d never been less useful
and more loyal corporate yes-men generation as the tuition went up.

I think it’s ok as long as we stop automatically approving their Green Cards following a lifetime of no tax and free schooling. There are so many amazing young immigrants with talents for us to spend the visa allotment on rather than the people who’ve sucked the system dry for decades with no taxation and can barely use MS Office and then apply for the GC before retiring when about to use the Medicare. Plus so many tried to divorce the first wives in the “home country” leaving them destitute that the FBI had to step in.

You sure have an axe to grind! Shocked nobody sued? Who would sue who and on what legal basis?

These families and international organizations are following the laws that apply to them. A G-4 visa holder wouldn’t even have a way to file a return or pay taxes.

[Anonymous]

A number of families at our K-8 have employer assistance. Just a perk of international assignments. Oh, ya'll thought all people at private school had it like that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if this is partly how WIS attracts so many international families?

No, it is not. The school gives no benefits, employers do. WIS attracts foreigners because of the IB program, language immersion and overall environment of the school.

Not quite. I know a number of people who said they would have sent their kids to the public (Montgomery
Co) b/c WIS would objectively not be worth it without the IMF benefit. They would see it differently for SIdwell or GDS.

As for the World Bank, the benefit did not stop in 1998; it stopped for those who joined after 1998. I know women in 2nd marriages to old geezers with pre-1998 benefits enjoying the full tuition benefit for their kids (college too, yes). Shocked no one ever sued. I’ve been assured there’d never been less useful
and more loyal corporate yes-men generation as the tuition went up.

I think it’s ok as long as we stop automatically approving their Green Cards following a lifetime of no tax and free schooling. There are so many amazing young immigrants with talents for us to spend the visa allotment on rather than the people who’ve sucked the system dry for decades with no taxation and can barely use MS Office and then apply for the GC before retiring when about to use the Medicare. Plus so many tried to divorce the first wives in the “home country” leaving them destitute that the FBI had to step in.

You sure have an axe to grind! Shocked nobody sued? Who would sue who and on what legal basis?

These families and international organizations are following the laws that apply to them. A G-4 visa holder wouldn’t even have a way to file a return or pay taxes.

+1 we can’t get a GC even if we wanted it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if this is partly how WIS attracts so many international families?

No, it is not. The school gives no benefits, employers do. WIS attracts foreigners because of the IB program, language immersion and overall environment of the school.

Not quite. I know a number of people who said they would have sent their kids to the public (Montgomery
Co) b/c WIS would objectively not be worth it without the IMF benefit. They would see it differently for SIdwell or GDS.

As for the World Bank, the benefit did not stop in 1998; it stopped for those who joined after 1998. I know women in 2nd marriages to old geezers with pre-1998 benefits enjoying the full tuition benefit for their kids (college too, yes). Shocked no one ever sued. I’ve been assured there’d never been less useful
and more loyal corporate yes-men generation as the tuition went up.

I think it’s ok as long as we stop automatically approving their Green Cards following a lifetime of no tax and free schooling. There are so many amazing young immigrants with talents for us to spend the visa allotment on rather than the people who’ve sucked the system dry for decades with no taxation and can barely use MS Office and then apply for the GC before retiring when about to use the Medicare. Plus so many tried to divorce the first wives in the “home country” leaving them destitute that the FBI had to step in.

You sure have an axe to grind! Shocked nobody sued? Who would sue who and on what legal basis?

These families and international organizations are following the laws that apply to them. A G-4 visa holder wouldn’t even have a way to file a return or pay taxes.

+1 we can’t get a GC even if we wanted it.

Exactly. I posted my own family’s experience as G-4 holders growing up but for some reason it got deleted. People who complain loudest about foreigners and immigrants often have the least understanding of the country’s immigration system and rules.

[Anonymous]

Tons of posts got deleted from this thread

[Anonymous]

They can pay whatever they want but this is taxable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can pay whatever they want but this is taxable.

No, it is not

[Anonymous]

Not everyone getting school paid for is a diplomat. Even if they are, overseas postings are commonly for three years so kids have to be able to go assimilate back into their own country's schools upon return. Privates can make that easier depending on the country of origin.

Growing up my dad's company paid for us to attend a private school when posted overseas. In our experience it was for the language-barrier. There's no way we could go to a public school starting in middle school not speak the language at all and have an easy transition. The are American schools in Japan, London, Switzerland, etc. that American companies regularly pay for. And in our case as expats, we paid tax overseas and in America.