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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's fairly rare for financial aid to go to really poor people, because they would need 100% assistance and many times, even with the assistance, the family cannot truly afford to go. FA is not supposed to make it easy to finance your child's education, it only helps bridge the gap. Now, there may be a section of families that receive FA and may receive very little, and I guess these are the people that all of these posters seem to have their panties in a bunch about. There are so many things that people here may not be considering. For example, maybe that person who lives in a million dollar house has three to four kids, maybe that house is only a life estate or owned by grandparents. Should the grandparents wealth also be taken into consideration? I would hope that most people here would think not. It was bad enough that at 25, My parent's wealth was used in my financial aid decision for grad school, when my parents were not contributing.

All of the parents here seem to have a huge sense of entitlement. Your tuition dollars do not cover the cost of your child's education. Any amount you actually give and let's face it here, all these people who are complaining and truly sacrificing are not donating much more than the required tuition.  The school appreciates your $500, $1000, $5000 or maybe even $10,000 donations, but really, it's just going towards covering your own child's education costs. In any case, the money belongs to the school and a bulk of that money is coming from money already given to the school before you even got there., and the school can do what it wants with its money. Before you stop giving to your school however, you may want to get your facts checked about exactly how much of your dollars actually help one of these so-called undeserving families.

All of this anger and resentment about how money is spent and the sacrifices you are making to spend 30,000 a year to send your child to private school is a bunch of garbage. You made that choice. You choose the ULTIMATE LUXURY expense. Everyone here hates on Mercedes, but I could buy two Mercedes every year for the cost of sending two kids to private school. You knew what you were signing up for when you decided to enroll your child, so don't be angry at anyone but yourself if you feel like you are missing out on anything in life because YOU chose to send your child to private school. And to thsoe people who live in an unacceptable public school area, you can always move If FA was such a big issue, maybe you should have put that into you application when you applied. [/quote]

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