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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I make enough money to pay the tuition but am in a very risky business and am not totally confident every single year that I will be able to earn enough all though I have in the past. Why wouldn't the school want to secure a high paying family for the long term by offering them some sort of a discount. If the school has a long wait list then they will probably tell us to buzz off but our kids school doesn't. [/quote]

If your income does drop, it makes complete sense for you to circle back to the school to see if they will give you aid.  It might make sense for you to talk to them about your situation so that it is less of a shock if you come to them at some point saying you need financial aid.  They might also tell you -- quite reasonably -- that you should save more in the years of plenty to prepare for the years of drought, if you still want to be able to send 4 kids to private school in times of drought.

But it is truly bizarre that you think they should give you a discount now on the chance that, in the future, your income happens to go down.  What happens if your income doesn't go down?  Are you going to then pay them back?[/quote]

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