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Everyone I know on financial aid are multimillionaires who are just strategic about masking their assets/income for purposes like this.

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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.

My child’s school has a significantly higher percentage of families on aid than that. It’s among the highest in the area. It’s not enough to make the school truly accessible, but I know eliminating financial aid is not a choice I would tolerate and would not increase accessibility.

Why haven’t you left for public or, better yet, one of many schools that offers no financial aid?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know on financial aid are multimillionaires who are just strategic about masking their assets/income for purposes like this.

I’ll let the single mom nurse whose kid is in my class know.

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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.

My child’s school has a significantly higher percentage of families on aid than that. It’s among the highest in the area. It’s not enough to make the school truly accessible, but I know eliminating financial aid is not a choice I would tolerate and would not increase accessibility.

Why haven’t you left for public or, better yet, one of many schools that offers no financial aid?

Which school is giving significantly more than 30% of students financial aid? Where do you live?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know on financial aid are multimillionaires who are just strategic about masking their assets/income for purposes like this.

I’ll let the single mom nurse whose kid is in my class know.

Doesn’t exist. Nice try.

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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.

My child’s school has a significantly higher percentage of families on aid than that. It’s among the highest in the area. It’s not enough to make the school truly accessible, but I know eliminating financial aid is not a choice I would tolerate and would not increase accessibility.

Why haven’t you left for public or, better yet, one of many schools that offers no financial aid?

Which school is giving significantly more than 30% of students financial aid? Where do you live?

Fairfax County. Many privates award aid to over a third of families.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know on financial aid are multimillionaires who are just strategic about masking their assets/income for purposes like this.

I’ll let the single mom nurse whose kid is in my class know.

Doesn’t exist. Nice try.

Okay, you definitely don’t have kids in private.

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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.

Shouldn’t you have left the low paying nonprofit job by now? For your kid?

This is the exact conn here. Gee how wonderful you are paying my bills. Guess I don’t need to get a real job after all!

Perhaps - but maybe we want a community with some non-profiters, feds, professors/teachers, etc., versus just law firm partners, PE folks, and gen wealth types.

But perhaps I’m far too wealthy (and grateful) for it to bother me. If you’re not, get over 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?

I’m glad the PP is generous. You are a fool! Do you think teachers don’t work hard? Or a construction worker? Or a police officer? Or a social worker? Get over yourself. Just because you get paid more per year doesn’t mean you work harder.

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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.

Shouldn’t you have left the low paying nonprofit job by now? For your kid?

This is the exact conn here. Gee how wonderful you are paying my bills. Guess I don’t need to get a real job after all!

Perhaps - but maybe we want a community with some non-profiters, feds, professors/teachers, etc., versus just law firm partners, PE folks, and gen wealth types.

But perhaps I’m far too wealthy (and grateful) for it to bother me. If you’re not, get over it.

If you are okay being scammed that just speaks to how oblivious you are. Everyone around you could be taking advantage of your naivety.

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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.

My child’s school has a significantly higher percentage of families on aid than that. It’s among the highest in the area. It’s not enough to make the school truly accessible, but I know eliminating financial aid is not a choice I would tolerate and would not increase accessibility.

Why haven’t you left for public or, better yet, one of many schools that offers no financial aid?

Which school is giving significantly more than 30% of students financial aid? Where do you live?

Many of the Jewish day schools give aid to more than half of families. More than half of CEJDS students get aid.

And as to other religions, I believe Abbey gives aid to close to half of students.

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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?

I’m glad the PP is generous. You are a fool! Do you think teachers don’t work hard? Or a construction worker? Or a police officer? Or a social worker? Get over yourself. Just because you get paid more per year doesn’t mean you work harder.

The market economy places value on work and yes the harder it is the higher it gets compensated.

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we have HHI 400K and when we had 3 at a $60K private we essentially paid for 2 (received 30% aid). Now we're down to one kid and we're full pay.

(and please spare any comments on how we shouldn't have had 3 kids)

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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?

I’m glad the PP is generous. You are a fool! Do you think teachers don’t work hard? Or a construction worker? Or a police officer? Or a social worker? Get over yourself. Just because you get paid more per year doesn’t mean you work harder.

The market economy places value on work and yes the harder it is the higher it gets compensated.

DP. Didn’t you denigrate someone else’s work that made them a lot of money? You called them paper pushers with time less valuable than yours?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know on financial aid are multimillionaires who are just strategic about masking their assets/income for purposes like this.

I’ll let the single mom nurse whose kid is in my class know.

Doesn’t exist. Nice try.

Okay, you definitely don’t have kids in private.

Maybe not your type of private.