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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP hasn’t provided any additional information so who knows what financial choices are at play. [/quote]

This is OP, thanks for all the responses. We are a two-income family, on track with our retirement accounts and savings adequate for in-state college. But, we have already put off home repairs etc. because we moved DD to a private K-8 during covid and stayed. We receive FA at the K-8. So as I try to figure out what we can afford, it's not a choice between tuition and retirement savings, it's a choice between tuition and other flexible but important things like repairs and having a big cushion against unemployment in the current environment.

Between DD's K-8 classmates and her neighborhood friends we already deal with the concept of having more than some and less than others, and the public HS has its share of affluent kids. The other dynamic is that DH attended a very good public HS here 30 years ago and has views based on that experience, while I attended a private all-girls HS and am more easily swayed toward that. Neither of us knows what our zoned public is actually like today - the parents I talk to have a lot of complaints, but sometimes people complain in order to have something to discuss.

It's good advice to sit down and decide on a number and a transportation plan, and then ask DD if she still wants to try. I am not sure how to get her a tour at the public HS but will look into that. [/quote]

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