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[quote=Anonymous]Your options are:

-Stick with public
-Find the money somewhere (sell your house and move to smaller, sell a car, cancel cable or other subscriptions, cancel gym, no eating out or fun money)
-Earn the money- frankly DW can get a higher paying job if it's so important to her or pick up a second job

You CAN NOT go into private school as-is literally knowing you'll be in the red every month. That's absolutely insane and will be a disservice to your kids in a million more ways than private school with enhance their lives.

My own opinion- my DH went to mediocre public schools then his parents paid for his and BIL's college in full. I went to private schools and my parents gave me $10k for college, I graduated with $80k debt. I think that was the most idiotic thing my parents did. I grew up feeling so inadequate- the poorest kid in private. I didn't understand why all the other kids wore these insane clothes, shoes, backpacks, did travel sports, went on trips, lived in mansions. We couldn't afford any of that or for me to have birthday parties, the country club membership they all had, the sleep away camps they all went to, friend's parents would invite me on trips but I couldn't go because we couldn't pay my way. It was a lifestyle I had no business being exposed to at such a young age. I HATED it. I would have been SO much happier in public school with kids like me that met at the neighborhood park and did park district sports.[/quote]

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