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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're truly "middle class" you shouldn't be attending this school in the firs place.

Face it. Private school is for rich people, period. Don't believe anyone who tries to tell you otherwise.[/quote]

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This. The actual middle class in America doesn't send their kids to private school.[/quote]

They do in other parts of the country. 40K+ for grade school is an up-East/California phenomenon. Are the schools substantially better? Maybe? No real way to compare. They're substantially better connected, for sure, and they are shinier (or ivy-er, whichever).[/quote]

Again those are not middle class families. DCUM has a distorted belief of what is a middle class family. A family of 4 making 75k is not sending their child to a 40k private school. Unless they are recieving significant aid, which isn’t the point of the complaint on this thread...[/quote]

In other parts of the country, i.e., the South and Midwest, you can go to the best private school in town for $10-12K (kindy) to less than $20K (9-12). I know this, because we are in Georgia right now, and I went to a similar school in Alabama. DH is military, and we are waiting to see if we'll move back to the DMV next year, where, obviously, we won't even consider private on our combined income of $200K.

FWIW, I (valedictorian) went to Berkeley, and the salutatorian went to Harvard. Other kids went to Princeton and SLACs. This was 1990, graduating class of 80 people. These days, plenty of kids going to state schools, especially now that they've all added full scholarships for their honors colleges, but large percentages of the class at the school here in GA and at my old school in AL are receiving acceptances to elite universities. Test scores are excellent, and the students do well when they get there. So whatever the 40K-a-year schools are doing, it's not educating kids better. I do believe they create better networks.[/quote]

Middle class families still aren’t sending their kids to private schools in those areas. The average income would be much lower, still making your 10-20k unaffordable.[/quote]

So, on this thread, people have argued that rich = anything over 75K, and now you're arguing that in DC, rich = ? 400K?

Average income where we are now is $41K. It is 75K in DC, the highest in the nation.

Plenty, plenty of people here make $100K-$150K a year. That's not hard, particularly if both spouses work, even here in a mid-sized city in GA (not Atlanta). You can do $10K-$20K/yr on that with some sacrifices. And it's not hard to find people who make more (including us, an Army officer and a very part-time professional).

The jobs that pay enough to come up with $40K-$80K/yr (assuming two kids in school) are much harder to find. Two kids in school already exceed the average income, and are more than half of doubling that income, which is still an easily-obtainable income ($150K). At a tuition of $15K/yr, two kids is still less than the average income where I am, and 1/3 of doubling it. It's 1/5 of $150K/yr.

The scale is different, true. But the doctors in GA are the same in terms of SES as they are in DC. If they're middle class in DC, they're middle class for the US as a whole.[/quote]

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