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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Miss 50% aid with the modest new car, it's wonderful to have people like you in the private school community. Admire your dedication to provide the best for your child. That being said, I have the same dedication to my child. Private school is vastly superior to public school and therefore is highly coveted in this area saturated with intelligent parents. However, I don't appreciate the shade at those who earn a little more than you, live in a better home, and drive a nicer car. I receive 25% in aid for my 2 kids and have the 3000 square foot home. It's a townhouse if that makes you feel better. I'm thankful for my aid as it helps us afford the social costs of attending private, which allows the private school experience to be even more beneficial to my kids. I'm not flying off to Europe with my kids for every vacation. I am equally deserving of aid and just because your total finances are different than mine doesn't mean you have the right to decide who's better suited for aid based on the car they drive or the size of their house. The school needs all kinds of families and without aid there would only be the uber wealthy and the poor with nothing in between.

I mean there are some on this board that have argued that people who choose to work in lower paid professions should first try to increase income by changing to higher paying jobs so they can afford private school instead of looking for 50% aid so I wouldn't be so quick to show case your frugality as evidence to support your use of financial aid. Basically people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. [/quote]

Miss 50% aid will be my new name! I thought I was very clear that my problem was flaunting that she's NOT poor, has a fancy luxury car and super nice house but still manages to work the system to get FA.

I'm glad that you strive to help people choose higher paying jobs. I didn't want to completely out our situation, but we both teach at private schools. Our 2 kids can't attend the schools where we work as one is the wrong gender/age and the other is special education. Hence the need for FA for the non-special ed kiddo. But I think your kids' schools could be well-served if all of the teachers left to work in higher paying jobs? There are huge benefits to working in a private school and we both work summer jobs to try to get ahead, but the resultant total HHI is only a bit over half of $250K/year. It's hard to do the summer jobs because camps to cover our SN kid would be almost as much as we could earn, but we try to alternate work schedules so as to minimize childcare expenses. My side job is also working with children, btw.

I have NO problem with middle class parents who make more than we do also getting FA and know plenty at the school where I work. Bragging about having it all with a "luxury" car, her words not mine, and big house while getting FA rubs me wrong.

For the record, I never said the car is beat up, I simply said it's old. The "new" car is over 3 years old now![/quote]

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