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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think it is a little ridiculous to both not work and insist on private school.[/quote]

Agree. I’m a SAHM and private school would be a non-starter with my husband. He doesn’t quite make $500/k but it wouldn’t matter to him if he did. He is focused on college and retirement savings and generational wealth building. Private secondary school is just a badge like a luxury car or country club (we don’t those either.)[/quote]

Whether it’s just a “badge” or could be meaningfully better depends on the kid and their current situation. Of course it’s true that for some people that it’s just a status symbol, but that’s not the only reason to send kids to private, and OP doesn’t even attempt to explain his wife’s reasons. [/quote]

He doesn’t care. He doesn’t want to pay for this. He sees it as an unnecessary luxury.

OP, I grew up going to public schools and so did my partner. Our kids are in private because our public is nearly 30 to a class. It has been worth it for the pandemic because our public wasn’t even in person for almost a year. If your private is under 20 students a class with decent facilities and academics, I would say it probably is a waste. There’s nothing they do in private that we couldn’t do with our kids on the weekends. But with COVID and our local situation it has been worth it. You need to look at the details.

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