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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This forum is about private schools. I just don't understand why public school parents get on here and start sounding off on how awesome public school is in response to a question about a affording a private school education.

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OP is not really asking "Can we afford private".  Clearly she's smart enough to know that a family with a $245K income can come up with $40K a year if need be.  If this was a question of something that was, without a doubt, needed, like say chemotherapy, then the OP can clearly find $40K.  What the OP is actually asking is "are the sacrifices I'd have to make to send my kids to private worth it, and what would they be?"  The answer to that question clearly hinges, in part, on what your tuition money is buying, and how much better a private school is relative to a public one is hugely relevant to that decision.

I send my kid to public.  Not because I can't afford private, but because the sacrifices we'd have to make as a family weren't justified by the differences between my local public school and the private school we liked best.  [/quote]

Op here, right.  Partially it's "can we afford it", because for two kids we're not talking $40k.  More like $60k.  And it's not so much sacrifices that concern me as the level of risk if the private tuition requires that we have zero financial safety net.
Anyway, thanks for the many thoughtful responses.[/quote]

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