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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After one of my children was diagnosed with a life threatening illness, someone paid his siblings' tuition.  The school didn't pretend it was found money.  [b]They just told me that the tuition had been paid, and that the donor preferred to remain anonymous[/b].  [/quote]

This is the only way to approach it. The school cannot lie to a family about how their tuition is being paid. Making up a fake scholarship or fake financial aid is incredibly unethical. [/quote]

How is it a lie? Donors donate to financial aid pool all the time, those donations are used to give aid to families. “We’ve found some additional aid for your child” is not a lie. [/quote]

Because there is a financial aid process, and a pool of funds. At many schools, the identified need of all families based on the SSS process exceeds the amount of funds available. So informing a specific family that additional funds from the financial aid pool are available for that specific family when that is not true is a distortion of the financial aid process that impacts many families, not just the family that received the additional funds.

The alternative that PPP identified--that the tuition had been paid anonymously--is in fact the best and only appropriate way to do it. And as the retired HOS PP stated, another difference is that this is not a deductible gift, whereas a gift to the financial aid pool is of course deductible.[/quote]

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