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Stop crying like you’re poor and all Maret families are rich.  [/quote]

A little perspective. Roughly 75% of the kids in DC as classified as "economically disadvantaged," which means they qualify for free lunch. The income cutoff varies depending on household size, for a household of two -- single parent with one child -- it's around $30K, and for a household of 5 it's in the mid 50's.

Among DC schools, Hardy is one of the more affluent, only 40% of the kids there are economically disadvantaged.

At Maret, financial aid is available for students whose family's household income is below a certain threshold. For a family with one child in private school that threshold is about $225,000, for families with more children it's higher. Three quarters of the students at Maret do not receive financial aid and their families pay the full $39,000 tuition. Financial aid is awarded on a sliding scale based on need, according to Maret's website the average family on financial aid pays $12,000 per year for tuition.

Now, while these numbers are incomplete, they do paint a picture. I will stipulate that no family who is categorized as "economically disadvantaged" can afford to pay $12,000 a year, per child, for tuition. Most of them in fact would be hard-pressed to pay anything. While the Maret community is generous with financial aid, the typical recipient of financial aid is far wealthier than the typical child in DC. If 40% of the kids at Hardy are economically disadvantaged I would also stipulate that the average kid isn't going to be that much better off. There aren't any publicly-available numbers about the economic status of the kids who use Jelleff aftercare, but i would suspect they are mostly typical of the city as a whole.

While almost certainly there are some Hardy families or even B&GC families who are better off than the poorest Maret families, what is undeniable is that the typical families at Hardy, the B&GC and the city as a whole are far, far less affluent than the scholarship kids at Maret -- and those are the "poor" kids.

This deal would still be wrong even if both communities were equally affluent, what really runs counter to Maret's stated values is that they are taking resources from communities that are far less fortunate than themselves. [/quote]

+1. But the Maret families won’t ever understand that there are other underprivileged people in this city who could be using a Jelleff.  All they care about is that if they keep their costs low at $95,000/year for Jelleff they won’t have to pay a higher tuition that would be necessary if they paid a market price for a fuel.    So they can buy more Chanel handbags! [/quote]

LOL Georgetown is so poor. [/quote]

LOL reading comprehension is so hard. [/quote]

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