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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools are not making a profit - I have attended my head's meeting on the budget where he goes over all the expenses and then shows enrollment and then shows what tuition has to be.  I have simplified it but basically I left realizing that it costs a lot to run a school.  Health care, basic benefits, salaries, facility set costs, FA take up a majority of the revenue. I don't see schools having a choice unless they pay teachers way less and risk not having great teachers or drop FA altogether. I don't like either of these options so I pay the tuition.[/quote]

In my observation there are a lot of staff costs there don't need to be. Schools spend a lot on what is basically advertising: marketing and promotion, shiny magazines and brochures, webmasters. Not to mention building expensive new facilities. I know they do this because they think it's necessary to distinguish themselves from other schools, but it's an arms race and it's expensive. If they were just paying teachers in regular cinder block school hallways and sending out regular paper newsletters written by the principal rather than a communications professional, they'd save a lot.[/quote]

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