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Someone keeps posting this.  Which of these schools charged only $16,000 five years ago?  [/quote]

Again  your deliberately posting the lowest tuition you can find ( half of 32K) to try to minimize the impact tuitions for 2013-2014 of $ 39,750 are having on families ( not just leaving schools their kids love, but impacting the quality of their family life as UMC parents work more and more to be able to foot such an outrageous bill ( 120K for 3 kids in elementary school).

Read the thread, several NCS alums contributed as just one example. Yes, tuition has nearly doubled in last 6 years, at many schools. repeating it hasn't and comparing the lowest tuition you can find on line ( last year's number to boot) doesn't change that.

Of course, every parent who has had a kid in private school for at leats 10 years knows this is true. Your denying it over and over does  not make it untrue.[/quote]

You've been given numerous examples that show your "tuition nearly doubling in last 6 years" statement is just off.  "Nearly doubling" would be an increase of close to 100%.  Obviously that is not the case, as the posted Sidwell and St. Albans examples demonstrate.  (I don't think you actually read the posts that contradict yours -- it is the only explanation.)

Now, is it possible that you are trying to say that in the last six years "tuition has nearly increased by 50%"?  That's different from "doubling," but I could sort of see your confusion if that's what you were thinking.  You'd still be a little off on your timeline, but if St. Albans was $26,000 in 2006, a 50% increase is $39,000 which is close to what the 2013-2014 tuition will be (I've heard it is a 3.5% increase for next year but it might be 4%).  So that would be an increase by "nearly 50%" in seven years, which IS DEFINITELY A LOT!  (But it's not "doubling.")

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