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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know people who are deemed as highly intelligent  who buy Teslas, but their kids go to very crappy schools.

I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe that education is not important, maybe they think academics are not that important and they are teaching kids the necessary skills themselves. Who knows.

[b]In our private school many kids go to the same state schools as the public school kids.[/b][/quote]

Aren't you sort of contradicting yourself here? Why does it matter if a kid goes to private school if he or she will just end up at VT, JM, or College Park anyway?[/quote]

Because it’s not about the college, at least for me. I want to provide a thriving environment for my kid for 12 years that are formative development years.

My colleague drives a Tesla while his kids experience  fights with hair pulling, smashing bodies into walls and floors, regular lockdowns for gun threats, low academic standards, prevalent drugs, etc.

I drive a Honda, but my kid is in a calm learning environment with high academic standards, teachers who work in making learning joyful, kids that are
motivated to succeed.[/quote]

Actually, the title of the thread is "Thoughts on families with expensive houses and cars who send kids to public school?" and the first post is "

The point is that even if your car cost $30k and your colleague's cost $80k, that's a $50k delta, which is basically 1 year of private school, maybe 1.5, for one kid. If your colleague has more than one kid, they could drive an $800 beater and it would still cost more than the Tesla to put multiple kids through one year of private school.

For families with multiple kids, it's rare that lifestyle changes like downgrading a house or buying cheaper cars would come anywhere close to equating to the annual cost of private school tuition.[/quote]

[b]This thread discusses families who CAN afford smilingly a private school but still spend this extra money on houses, boats, new cars every year [/b]and (as one PP mentioned) their own savings of $150k/year. I would absolutely consider her a better parent if she drives Honda and not Tesla, but sends her kid to a good private school.

Many kids who are smart enough to get accepted by private schools get tuition discounts. Our private school tuition is 46K but families with multiple kids pay under 20K or so, as school has wealthy donors and its co-funded by corporate sponsors who cover their employees' kids at 100%. So one Tesla is more of a 5 years tuition which would be a huge change for a child in DC, for example where there are simply no comparable public schools [/quote]

Where do you read that in the thread title or first post?[/quote]

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