Private schools accepting employee children

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's school provides 50% tuition remission for faculty.

The tuition per year is over 30K and I am frankly tired of hearing how there isn't enough money in the budget. I wish the school would re-examine the faculty tuition remission plan to help with the shortfalls.

+1, and would add annual hefty increases for faculty and staff as well. We haven't had a raise in 3 years, and it irks me that they can't tighten their belts as well.

What's your current salary? Nice to complain about people making 50,000 getting raises. Poor, poor, poor you.

So you think parent's salaries are fair game? We need to watch our budgets tightly but to the schools, we're just ATMs? Teachers and administrators make less then me, so I should just pony up an automatic raise to them? I don't think so,

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher in one of your private schools and your kids have as many behavior problems as faculty kids. A colleague of mine actually took her kids out of one of the "big 3" because he felt like his kid was getting 2nd class treatment as a faculty kid. It was free tuition. Diversity is good. Trust me - you want our kids in the school - we will treat your kids better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's school provides 50% tuition remission for faculty.

The tuition per year is over 30K and I am frankly tired of hearing how there isn't enough money in the budget. I wish the school would re-examine the faculty tuition remission plan to help with the shortfalls.

+1, and would add annual hefty increases for faculty and staff as well. We haven't had a raise in 3 years, and it irks me that they can't tighten their belts as well.

What's your current salary? Nice to complain about people making 50,000 getting raises. Poor, poor, poor you.

So you think parent's salaries are fair game? We need to watch our budgets tightly but to the schools, we're just ATMs? Teachers and administrators make less then me, so I should just pony up an automatic raise to them? I don't think so,

If you want a revolving door of faculty at your child's school, that's a great attitude to take.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's school provides 50% tuition remission for faculty.

The tuition per year is over 30K and I am frankly tired of hearing how there isn't enough money in the budget. I wish the school would re-examine the faculty tuition remission plan to help with the shortfalls.

+1, and would add annual hefty increases for faculty and staff as well. We haven't had a raise in 3 years, and it irks me that they can't tighten their belts as well.

What's your current salary? Nice to complain about people making 50,000 getting raises. Poor, poor, poor you.

So you think parent's salaries are fair game? We need to watch our budgets tightly but to the schools, we're just ATMs? Teachers and administrators make less then me, so I should just pony up an automatic raise to them? I don't think so,

You sound both stupid and mean-spirited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's school provides 50% tuition remission for faculty.

The tuition per year is over 30K and I am frankly tired of hearing how there isn't enough money in the budget. I wish the school would re-examine the faculty tuition remission plan to help with the shortfalls.

+1, and would add annual hefty increases for faculty and staff as well. We haven't had a raise in 3 years, and it irks me that they can't tighten their belts as well.

What's your current salary? Nice to complain about people making 50,000 getting raises. Poor, poor, poor you.

So you think parent's salaries are fair game? We need to watch our budgets tightly but to the schools, we're just ATMs? Teachers and administrators make less then me, so I should just pony up an automatic raise to them? I don't think so,

If you are jealous of your children's teachers perhaps you should home-school.

[Anonymous]

My husband teaches private. I teach public. Our kids will get 100% tuition from his school.

[Anonymous]

Such a weird thing to worry about.

[Anonymous]

I took OPs post a different way. Many of these schools (especially in 7th and 9th) have so few spots, and it would be nice to know when applying what percent usually go to faculty/staff kids or siblings. Sometimes that can cut the available spots by half. Sort of hate to go through the process if the number of openings are a lot smaller than you think.

[Anonymous]

Faculty kids are usually already in by then.

[Anonymous]

Been teaching at a private here in town for 14 years. We have faculty kids and they are usually pretty awesome down to earth kids. Anyhow, there have never been more than 4 in any one grade at the same time and that's a lot, usually one or none. So taking up half the class or half the openings for a school sounds a little fishy.

[Anonymous]

From what I experience, the folks who always seem to complain about tuition remission are the families swimming in money. Nothing drives me more nuts than a DW married to a DH in a partner in Big Law, have one or two kids, own a second home, travel overseas 1-3/year, and complain about this. Really? That's what you got for your kvetch?

[Anonymous]

I’m the PP who wrote that half of my DCs classes were teacher/staff kids. It was true. Maybe there was a higher percentage of teacher/staff kids at that school (verses other privates my DCs attended) because tuition remission was 100%. Another thing to consider is that at that school, parents could request their teacher preference for the following year. My DH and I would go through the yearbook and identify which classes had the most teacher kids and then request that teacher. It was so skewed some classes had half staff/teacher kids, others had none. Not all parents’ requests were honored, but the teacher’s requests always were.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who wrote that half of my DCs classes were teacher/staff kids. It was true. Maybe there was a higher percentage of teacher/staff kids at that school (verses other privates my DCs attended) because tuition remission was 100%. Another thing to consider is that at that school, parents could request their teacher preference for the following year. My DH and I would go through the yearbook and identify which classes had the most teacher kids and then request that teacher. It was so skewed some classes had half staff/teacher kids, others had none. Not all parents’ requests were honored, but the teacher’s requests always were.

This was not a DC school.

[Anonymous]

That sounds strange. We don't encourage parents to request teachers and I know one of my colleagues didn't get a teacher she requested for her child. That school sounds a little weird. Might be time to look around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From what I experience, the folks who always seem to complain about tuition remission are the families swimming in money. Nothing drives me more nuts than a DW married to a DH in a partner in Big Law, have one or two kids, own a second home, travel overseas 1-3/year, and complain about this. Really? That's what you got for your kvetch?

If you were offered a pay cut to be employed at your DC's school, for 100% tuition, would you take it?
Would you take 50 or 60% of your salary to be with your kids? Would you do it if the remission were only 1/2 or 1/3?

If you are not a teacher, would you do it if the position were in your field (development, grant writing, law, accounting...whatever)?

Not trolling, just poking...