What percentage do you pay?

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It’s unique to your net worth. Just apply and see what happens. Don’t feel bad for accepting the financial aid either. You won’t know unless you try. Good luck.

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On average, my independent school salary was $25,000/ year less than my public school salary. Health benefits worse and no pension, though a tiny contribution was made to a 403.

At that rate I figure I contributed $250,000 every ten years to financial aid/ the school.

(Yes I like my job most of the time, but hold your judgement on low wage earners. We’re teaching your children and contributing more than most.)

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

It is absolutely a luxury good. Why are you paying $60k/yr then if you could just go to a good public school? Also, why don't we also just let the financial aid families attend these public schools?

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

You are a hypocrite. If you want your kids surrounded by families of police officers, teachers, and public servants, there is a much better option than private school. The answer is public school.

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

You are a hypocrite. If you want your kids surrounded by families of police officers, teachers, and public servants, there is a much better option than private school. The answer is public school.

How am I hypocrite? I’m a hypocrite because I don’t want to exclude every family who can’t spare 60k a year from my child’s school? Nah.

Look, I want to massively reform the entire public education system and vote accordingly. In the meantime, I’ve got my kid in private school and like the financial aid program. In fact, I wish the program was larger and donate to it.

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

It is absolutely a luxury good. Why are you paying $60k/yr then if you could just go to a good public school? Also, why don't we also just let the financial aid families attend these public schools?

I like the mission of my child’s school, which I hand-selected. I’m not selling my house and relocating. I like my house and have a 2.5% interest rate. I also like our school.

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

It is absolutely a luxury good. Why are you paying $60k/yr then if you could just go to a good public school? Also, why don't we also just let the financial aid families attend these public schools?

Why don’t you opt for public when you’re the one who hates financial aid at the school you voluntarily send your child to? Make it make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

You are a hypocrite. If you want your kids surrounded by families of police officers, teachers, and public servants, there is a much better option than private school. The answer is public school.

Wait, now it’s hypocritical to spend your money on a school that has a financial aid program you actively support?

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

You are a hypocrite. If you want your kids surrounded by families of police officers, teachers, and public servants, there is a much better option than private school. The answer is public school.

Wait, now it’s hypocritical to spend your money on a school that has a financial aid program you actively support?

Financial aid is inadequate and to suggest that it is giving you any real socioeconomic diversity is foolish. The people who use financial aid are largely just gaming the system and not providing any actual diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

You are a hypocrite. If you want your kids surrounded by families of police officers, teachers, and public servants, there is a much better option than private school. The answer is public school.

How am I hypocrite? I’m a hypocrite because I don’t want to exclude every family who can’t spare 60k a year from my child’s school? Nah.

Look, I want to massively reform the entire public education system and vote accordingly. In the meantime, I’ve got my kid in private school and like the financial aid program. In fact, I wish the program was larger and donate to it.

You are a hypocrite because you only want to include hand-selected families who cannot afford full pay tuition through a highly selective financial aid program. 70-80% of the classmates are full pay and you think that the perhaps 5% or less kids on financial aid who truly need it are providing you any actual diversity.

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I heard that most of the FA goes to teachers’ kids. It makes sense as they do not pay much to the teachers and compansating their kids make them choose to teach at private instead of public.

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They deserve it but those tuition benefits for employees should be considered separate from financial aid.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that most of the FA goes to teachers’ kids. It makes sense as they do not pay much to the teachers and compansating their kids make them choose to teach at private instead of public.

They deserve it but those tuition benefits for employees should be considered separate from financial aid.

In some cases those teachers, especially if they have a higher income spouse, are getting more financial aid than a family with the same or less income are getting. I think making sure teachers can afford to send their kids to the school they work at is important, but just adding that scenario to the discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:I pay about 1/3 of the listed tuition thanks to very generous financial aid. I work for a nonprofit and my spouse died in 2021, so single income family. But the school feels my child adds something to their community and has worked to make tuition, although still a good chunk of my income, affordable as a result.

Precisely this. Even with aid, most FA families are still sacrificing a bunch. It’s sort of designed that way.

There is no sacrifice. That poster admitted to staying in a low paying nonprofit job despite being in real financial need. It sounds like they are taking advantage of the private school and trying to justify it by saying their kid adds something. No, your kid is just another kid there like everyone else. How delusional.

DP. I knew this would devolve into a financial aid hating discussion. It's despicable. If you hate financial aid so much, enroll don't send your child to a school that offers aid. You clearly fundamentally disagree with a core component of how the school is run.

BASIS McLean is always an option so your child doesn't have to go to school with the children of "lazy" nonprofit workers.

By the way, "nonprofit" job doesn't mean poorly paid. The ACLU, colleges, and major hospital systems are nonprofits. You have no idea what income OP makes. What their earning potential is. Or their efforts to secure other employment. No matter what, you will be convinced that any financial aid recipient is undeserving.

I’m just providing some honesty. The people who sacrifice are the ones who are full pay, working difficult jobs to pay the bills. We sacrifice to be able to pay for the financial aid programs in the first place. That is why they exist.

I’m also providing honesty. If you don’t support the financial aid program, you should not enroll at the corresponding school. You’re a whiny, entitled baby.

- Signed, a biglaw attorney billing 3,000 hours a year

You biglaw attorneys are whiny entitled babies. Seriously we just hire you for the paperwork. You are like low level accountants but much less interesting.

Cool. Happy to bill you for the paperwork.

Yes because our time is much more valuable. That is how it works.

Doesn’t bother me! Happy to work hard and grind it out for 600k/yr.

You sound smart and hard working. Your hard work is paying for other families to go on financial aid. Are they working as hard as you though?

Yes, lots of families have parents working just as hard as me if not harder. I am happy our school offers financial aid so that the children of public defenders, teachers, nurses, police officers, and social workers can attend.

If people go into low effort jobs, shouldn’t they deal with the consequences? Certainly some of these jobs can be hard but the pay increases with effort. Can’t they work enough to afford tuition?

Low pay =/= low effort. Many public defenders are putting in hours comparable to that of a biglaw attorney. Many high-paying jobs require less effort than lower-paying jobs. We have no way to reasonably measure how much effort people put in based on job title. I don't waste my time resenting people who don't work as hard. It's pointless and unhealthy. I also don't think people need to bill 3,000 hours a year for their children to deserve to attend a good school.

Again, quit whining. If you're so upset about how your school allocates financial aid, stop attending the school. You can go to public or elect a school without a need-based aid program.

Okay but if you choose low salary work you shouldn’t ask others to subsidize a fancy lifestyle. Pick work that is compensated better. Live within your means.

Like I said, I am happy to pay more than my child's classmates who have teachers, social workers, and police officers as parents. We have different values. I don't think of education as a luxury good and status symbol for myself or my child. A good school is not something a child deserves by virtue of their parents' high-status professions.

There are plenty of good public schools. Parents can relocate and pick whatever public school they want. You aren’t really helping anyone with financial aid.

I don’t think my child’s school is a status symbol, a luxury good, or an award for a parent’s hard work. You have different values from me. And you have different values from my child’s school. If your values don’t align, you should send your child elsewhere.

I am good with financial aid. I don’t need to scrutinize my child’s classmates to decide whether their parents have suffered enough to deserve financial aid.

You are a hypocrite. If you want your kids surrounded by families of police officers, teachers, and public servants, there is a much better option than private school. The answer is public school.

Wait, now it’s hypocritical to spend your money on a school that has a financial aid program you actively support?

Financial aid is inadequate and to suggest that it is giving you any real socioeconomic diversity is foolish. The people who use financial aid are largely just gaming the system and not providing any actual diversity.

Like I said, I wish it was accessible to more families. But the solution to making the school more accessible isn’t eliminating aid, and obviously you know that. You’re just eager to fight.