If grandparents offered to pay for private would you take it?

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Anonymous wrote:In laws are offering to pay for our two kids to go to private as they are concerned with where things stand with the current education system. We have a rising Kindergartener next year and one in preschool now. I am all for smaller class sizes and opportunities that private schools provide, but DH nor I attended private school. We are not poor by any means, but we do not drive fancy cars and live in a townhouse in NOVA. We both work full time and can't attend lot of the extra curriculars and parent events that I am being told there are. I feel like we are not going to fit in socially and won't have much in common with the other parents, but I care more about their education than anything. Would love some input from anyone in our situation.

Oh just stop.

Public schools are great; you are brain-dead.

There is no private school in the DMV that beats public school, particularly in math & science.

I am in the 1% of this country financially, and I would never think like your idiotic in-laws or you.

Yes, some kids need private school. There is nothing wrong with that; however, to say that private is overall better than public, you are an idiot. Go back to your hole MAGA.

This is such a lie. My kids go to public and it's awful. The problems are so numerous I can't even list them. Go to the other school forums to see all the complaints. I'm sure there are top public schools, but it's in the zip codes that don't allow townhouses or apartments (Great Falls and Langley!). Teachers just cannot keep up with the need that students have. Kids are hungry, don't have permanent homes, barely speak English, and the poverty is high for half the kids in my school.

But that’s just life. All over the world, people are hungry, lack basic amenities, and live in poverty. I get that you fear real life but why raise the next generation that way? Kids have to learn to live in the world, as it is. If you don’t like the reality, work to make it better, instead of trying to put your (and your kids) head in the sand.

By this same logic, no one should be living in nice houses, drive nice cars, or eat good food because think about how much worse it is elsewhere in the world!

DP. I personally find a family of 3 living in a 5,000 sq ft house, owning 3 luxury cars, taking multiple long haul flight vacations annually, purchasing $10k handbags, and regularly eating environmentally damaging meat and fish to be disgusting. People who live like this are not normal. It is not desirable. They are empty no matter how much yoga or spiritual retreats they do. They don’t talk to regular people. They are removed from what’s going on in the world in part because if they paid attention, they couldn’t continue to work their lecherous jobs that give them that kind of money.

DP. I’m curious about your meat/fish comment…so all non-vegetarians?

People who eat fetish beef all the time are ridiculous. You don’t have to be vegetarian, but wandering around like your choices are consequence-free is crazy.

WTF is fetish beef?

Day 15 of asking for an explanation of fetish beef. 🤣

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I would never accept an offer of help paying for private school from extended family unless I knew the specifics of their financial situation enough to know that they can afford it.

Also, have a discussion about their planned giving and involvement in educational decisions and put it all in writing preferably with an estate attorney before a single dollar is spent that isn’t the parents’.

You don’t want to end up supporting your in laws’ living expenses later because they are being overly showy and generous now.

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Anonymous wrote:In laws are offering to pay for our two kids to go to private as they are concerned with where things stand with the current education system. We have a rising Kindergartener next year and one in preschool now. I am all for smaller class sizes and opportunities that private schools provide, but DH nor I attended private school. We are not poor by any means, but we do not drive fancy cars and live in a townhouse in NOVA. We both work full time and can't attend lot of the extra curriculars and parent events that I am being told there are. I feel like we are not going to fit in socially and won't have much in common with the other parents, but I care more about their education than anything. Would love some input from anyone in our situation.

Oh just stop.

Public schools are great; you are brain-dead.

There is no private school in the DMV that beats public school, particularly in math & science.

I am in the 1% of this country financially, and I would never think like your idiotic in-laws or you.

Yes, some kids need private school. There is nothing wrong with that; however, to say that private is overall better than public, you are an idiot. Go back to your hole MAGA.

Jealous much?

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Anonymous wrote:In laws are offering to pay for our two kids to go to private as they are concerned with where things stand with the current education system. We have a rising Kindergartener next year and one in preschool now. I am all for smaller class sizes and opportunities that private schools provide, but DH nor I attended private school. We are not poor by any means, but we do not drive fancy cars and live in a townhouse in NOVA. We both work full time and can't attend lot of the extra curriculars and parent events that I am being told there are. I feel like we are not going to fit in socially and won't have much in common with the other parents, but I care more about their education than anything. Would love some input from anyone in our situation.

Oh just stop.

Public schools are great; you are brain-dead.

There is no private school in the DMV that beats public school, particularly in math & science.

I am in the 1% of this country financially, and I would never think like your idiotic in-laws or you.

Yes, some kids need private school. There is nothing wrong with that; however, to say that private is overall better than public, you are an idiot. Go back to your hole MAGA.

Jealous much?

All type weirdos will respond. Ignore the bs.