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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Affluent household with 3 kids in private here. At under $120K for 3 kids, we were buyers. Now looking at $165-$180K in the near future, we’re strategizing an exit.

Forget affordability. It’s the whole premise of shelling all this for kids to be stressed. Then there’s the nitpicking over stats that no one who’s actually living life to the fullest cares about.

Add tutoring, sports, music, summer camp, and now therapy, the cost of “rigor,” “health,” and “exposure” is reaching $200K and will only grow. That’s excluding the kids we hire to chauffer our kids around.

$500K pretax, $1m every-other-year into a system that brings out insecurity, competitiveness, instability

Half the parents at Sidwell and other privates left college wanting to make the world a better place. We’ve completely lost the plot.[/quote]

This was the situation before the recent price increases, and will continue to be. I don’t know about losing the plot, but part of the equation is how you communicate about the pressures and stresses of the current system to your kids. For us, I figure the camps, school tuition, etc., are worth it if our kids enjoy the activities/camps/schools, and are receiving benefits from participating. The rest is just noise.

I went from public schools to Ivy but the reality is that admissions are so insane these days that you can’t expect it for your kids. People can spend all you want on top privates but the kids are not getting into an Ivy or similar unless they’re truly excellent and put in the effort themselves. In any event, Ivy admission is not the be all and end all and we do our best to avoid putting that pressure on our kids   [/quote]

If our kids enjoyed it, it’d all be worthwhile. Mine increasingly aren’t. It sounds like yours are.

There’s always been a lot of noise out there. Somehow, years back, private sounded substantive. Now, to our ears, it’s pretty noisy[/quote]

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