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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every school raises tuition anywhere from 2 to 6 percent, every year. It is something new families applying to schools need to understand.

[b]When my kids started, tuition was in the high twenty thousand range and then they ended, it was at 50k[/b].

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:shock:  :shock: Oh my! That is an unknown/unconsidered/underappreciated reality for those families seeking entrance into K-12.
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[b]Parents who aren’t thinking about the long term cost are not very smart[/b]. I think people prefer not to think about it, but I can’t imagine people really don’t know.

We have four kids in independent schools. When we enrolled the first one I did the math on what we could expect for high school tuition to be for the last one and how much it would cumulatively cost. [/quote]

This is obnoxious (perhaps not unexpectedly from this board). First, "thinking about the long term cost" is likely what most do to some extent, but that is not what I was referring to. New parents, unfamiliar with independent schools and outside of the DC/Potomac bubble, are not going to widely anticipate that tuition will [u]DOUBLE[/u] by the end. That is not a reasonable/common expectation, even if "thinking long term" and assuming some tuition increases. It has nothing to do with being "smart".  :roll: 
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