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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. You have a weird sense of entitlement to a private school education.  You remind me of one of my college roommates.  Both her parents were doctors, she lived in a huge house on Long Island, brought more clothes with her than I had ever owned in my whole life, and yet managed to qualify for a work-study job.  Plenty of other families made sacrifices and paid full freight.  It's obnoxious to spend your money and expect others to pay for your kids schooling.  [/quote]
This is yet another straw man argument.  Nobody is saying your roommate should have gotten aid.[/quote]

How is it different than your argument that a family making $400k a year should get aid for private school?  Either spend less money, or go to a cheaper school. [/quote]
Because your roommate wasn't in a situation where her parents were asked to allocate 100% of their saveable income (in a situation with no accumulated wealth, unlike your roommates' parents) towards 4 tuition payments - to the point of not even funding her parent's 401k.

Let's assume that the family on Sister Wives makes $400k pretax.  Your position is that each of their kids are entitled brats if they seek a dime of financial aid because $400k can support unlimited tuition payments, full stop?

All of these examples are relative - in the vast majority of cases, a family with $400k HHI would not need any aid.  But there are certainly rare circumstances when it would be justifiable.[/quote]

And what if you had five kids? And what if you had 10? How many of your kids do other people have to pay for to go to private school because you like saving $120k per year?!

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