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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not free. Even with grandparents paying. We were in a similar position and ended up switching back to public. There is so much keeping up with the joneses at private schools and when you are in a different income bracket you cannot keep up. Your children will know it and feel it when they don’t have what the other kids do and can’t do what the other kids are doing. [/quote]

As an example… my kids two best friends from private school are part of a country club and do swim team there. Kid feels left out because we’re not members. That’s not a rare situation.

And I’m not poor. I make 250K a year. But at the privates around here, most have incomes topping $1mil. [/quote]

Our HHI is similar and we are "poor" at our private school. My kid cannot do horse riding lessons or international vacations; I cannot make big donations or volunteer mid-day, which has trickle-down effects on my reception at school. 
Our neighborhood public school is not low-income but the population is such that many families are single-income with 2-4 kids; we are dual income with 1 kid and so DD is wealthy compared to public school classmates.
I think it's actually put DD in a good spot as far as recognizing what she has that neighbor friends don't, but also experiencing the "have-not" feeling of seeing classmates get things she won't.[/quote]

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