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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's my understanding that even if a person teaches or works there, they have to fill out a financial aid form in order to get a reduction.

I could be wrong, but I thought that's how it works. I don't think there's an automatic discount or anything. And from I gather about private school salaries, I bet teachers qualify for aid fairly quickly at Sidwell.[/quote]

I wish it was true that granting aid to staff/admin/teachers was based on their income but it isn’t. A lot of schools have a blanket policy that they give an automatic deduction regardless of how much that family earns. (We attended a school that allowed all employees’ kids free.) Some schools provide a percentage deduction, but as PP stated these employees can always go through the FA process and receive more. 
[b]I don’t like employee kids attending my kids’ school because they are always, always favored by the other teachers. And no, as previous posts have said it’s because teacher kids are well behaved. This could not be further from the truth – they are bratty and entitled and treated specially. And I do not understand the philosophy that just because a parent teaches at a school their children should attend. Go get another job and make more money and then enroll your child in that school. [/b]  
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Bullshit. What a bunch of ridiculous generalizations. If any kids are treated with favoritism it is the kids of the large donors. I am sure every teacher and administrator runs when they hear you coming. If your kids are treated poorly ( which I doubt), it is probably because of you.[/quote]

No, it's not bullshit and it's not a bunch of ridiculous generalizations.  The sentenced bolded above are correct.  We were in a private school where the fifth grade daughter's not only attended class with DS all the way through, but the fifth grade teacher's husband (a non-grad) was a lawyer and was head of the Board?  A trifecta of conflict!  And all that bolded handwriting up there said is true.  The other teachers favorited the fifth grade teacher's pet.  She (daughter) became obnoxious and lacked empathy for any of the other students.  She constantly broke school rules about parties (whole class, half the class, all girls, etc.) by having a small halloween party but then she told every single girl in the 5th grade about how "she couldn't wait until her halloween party".  I was downwind so caught that myself.  The parents were furious.  Issues couldn't be raised because the head wouldn't do anything.  Nothing would go up to the "Board" level because his wife taught.  Everyone left the school that could. [/quote]

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