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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids private school used their annual fund in 2019-2020 to raise money to recruit, attract, and retain excellent teachers. They raised about $1.2 million dollars. More schools should follow this path rather than using money to just upgrade facilities. [/quote]

After experiencing private schools for 2 decades and friends who work in the schools, the facilities arms race in DC coupled with the expansion of the administration headcount and high salaries (HOS) has escalated the tuition costs and taken up a large percentage of donor contributions.  Wish it was more focused on recruiting and retaining top teachers instead.  After your kids graduate, it’s the individual teachers they remember - not the 3rd facilities project [/quote]

It's definitely well described as an 'arms race'. As a parent, it's nearly jumped the shark when it comes to who has the better gymnasium or maker's space. This has been a good year with staff retention including teachers. I'm happy our school has managed to stay about the fray of shortages and the PR frenzy the unions are trying to cause about the shortages. If they could put more of the donor contributions into staff retention and salary adjustments, I don't think anyone would miss the fancy new athletic equipment (which is just replacing last year's fancy new equipment)[/quote]

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