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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our small private elementary is fundraising for a building project. They called us in to meet with the fundraising lady and the principal — and they asked us for 100 thousand dollars. Verbally and then in writing.

I am floored. My husband and I drive used cars. We have five kids, four of them in private school (and I have a part time nanny for the fifth, a baby, so I can work.) we have no need based aid but two of my kids go to a high school with merit aid and we did not give them the option of looking at the more competitive local school due in large part because we wanted the aid.

Our hhi is 500-600k and we have about 2.5 million in the stock market.

I have a very wealthy friend with a fortune of about 500 million and she did nobody has ever asked her for that much money. I’m really upset and confused.

To top it all off, these renovations will not be finished while my kids are in elementary, although they will mess up the rest of their time there with constant construction. So they will never get to enjoy them.

Also, are heads of school usually involved like this? I feel like there is a conflict if interest? The principal even referenced a minor disciplinary issue my son had earlier in the year at the start of the meeting.

What on earth are they thinking and how do we respond? We would give them maybe $500 a year. We were expecting them to ask for maybe $5000 and we would go up to a thousand. Two kids at the school and this is our second year there.
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Is this CES? They are always asking for money and the objective for raising money is always a moving target. [/quote]

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