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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Comfortable?  Not penny pinching?  $500K.  At this level you can still save some, carry a decent sized mortgage, buy the kids whatever clothes you deem reasonable, comfortably pay for any and all extracurriculars they want, keep an appropriate level of "outsourcing" if you both work, and buy yourselves decent clothes and decent cars (and take decent vacations).  That's not to say you won't notice the missing $60K a year that goes for tuition.  You will.

It completely depends on the family and circumstances, of course.[/quote]

I agree.  500K sounds about right.  We make a bit more than half of that amount and it was really, really hard to do.   We ended up pulling our children out of private school this year.  It was a hard decision and there were even some tears, but on the end I think we did the right thing.

I was the biggest private school advocate and thought that our children would go through private school from PK-12th grade, no question about it.  I was willing to sacrifice, eat mac and cheese everyday, and wear the same clothes for 10 years.  When I first went to visit the public school our children attend now, I tried to find EVERY excuse in the book as to why it wasn't good enough for us.  There wasn't enough recess (40 minutes as opposed to 1.5 hours), the classrooms were smaller, the testing, etc., etc. etc.  My husband loved the school and wanted our children to go there starting in K, but he gave in to me and we stuck with private.  When we visited private schools everything was hunky dory in my book and I found no faults because I didn't want to see any faults.  Now that I am a bit older and a bit wiser, I realize the truth is that no school is perfect.

My children still have art twice a week, PE twice a week, music twice a week, and library once a week in their public school.   They have 20 children and two teachers in their classrooms.  We have the time to play more with children in our neighborhood.

The best part is that I am able to stay home (I was working in a low paying, yet fulfilling field before) and I feel like I know much more about what is going on in my children's lives.  I take them to school every morning, greet them at the bus at the end of the day, we can do after school activities, and we are eating much healthier because I actually have time to cook.  In addition, we are so much less stressed financially.  We are saving more, donating more, and are simply in a much better state of financial "health."

In closing, there are some wonderful private schools out there.  We loved our old school and our children grew so much while they were there.  However, there are really, really great public school options, as well.  In the end you need to make the best decision for your family.
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20 kids with two teachers?  Which public school is this?[/quote]

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