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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you make that much and can’t afford private you have bigger issues.  [/quote]

How do you figure?

Like I said, my alma mater is $28k per year...for 1 student. I have a few kids, so it would be very costly to send them to private school K through 12 AND have money saved for college.

I see that some people are going private K-8 and then bailing and going public for high school. I get it: catholic grade school is relatively affordable, but high school isn't. I wouldn't want to tear my kid away from their friends and send them to public for high school.

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Bishop Ireton is appr. $17K. I think that is very affordable for this area. Parish K-8 schools tend to be around $7K for Catholic students. If public school teachers can afford it then a lot of you are doing something wrong.[/quote]

I’m shocked by how cheap Ireton is. I noticed they have a Catholic and non-Catholic tuition rate; while that’s typical of K-8 parish schools (schools subsidized by the local church and archdiocese), that’s not the case for any catholic high school I’m familiar with in MoCo or DC.

We live in MoCo. I went to catholic school in MoCo, and I’m familiar with catholic schools in the dc metro area. Ireton was never on par with the others. For better or worse, there is a pecking order. And some schools have fallen from their glory days. Interestingly, SJCHS still has tuition in the mid-$20s despite its loss of popularity.

In any event, we can’t swing private. It’s been interesting to confirm my theory through this thread (singleton kids, super high earning parents, and help from grandparents). Bottom line: average people can’t swing private without help from the grandparents. [/quote]

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