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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At a reception for admitted families, I was surprised by how many faculty and staff spoke about their children attending the school.  At the reception itself, several staff members were also celebrating the admittance of their child or children, which is fantastic.  But, it seemed like a whoooole lot of staff!
I have to imagine that staff are given full tuition remission or tuition benefits.  
Is anyone familiar with this practice?  How common is it in private schools in the area?  Beyond creating massive employee loyalty and satisfaction, what are the other benefits to the school as a whole?[/quote]

Obnoxious. Really. Get a life.

Tuition remission is a huge incentive for great teachers to stay at a school. It also allows teachers to better serve your kids as they have a sense of perspective.  Unlike you. [/quote]

No, it creates enormous conflicts of interest if you are in a small private and your teacher's child is in the same grade (and, yes, daddy or partner is a big law firm person - no diveristy ++ issues at this school).  I questioned it at the time and looking back, it was just plain wrong.  All the other teachers tiptoed around the teachers kids' (there were two that went through the school).  The kids were disturbed, eating disorders and snobby attitudes because they knew the faculty or admin couldn't touch them.  and then daddy became chair of the board, so now we have a three-way conflict.  Teacher, who was problematic, couldn't be touched.  Children couldn't be touched.  Everything in that grade just shut down.   I think its a wrong practice and that most schools that still do allow it are revisiting the issue via exchange program with other schools.   It's healthlier, too, for the child of a faculty member to make their own way in the world, not having mommy or daddy 20 feet away all the time.  My college offers tuition remission/help for offspring at other colleges and universities - they work out deals so their kids don't have to be on the same campus as mom or dad plus get oet to the college that best suits them.
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