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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HHI $150k. We live in a townhouse in the suburbs, drive older cars, and do not feel the need to impress anyone with anything. We have one in private at $30,000/year and we're doing just fine. It's all a matter of priorities. [/quote]

This is sad.  You are going to die when your kid goes to college and is around other kids doing just as well and the parenrs are not living in a townhouse and driving older cars.  Unless your children have learning disabilities or are genuiuses, you're sacrificing way too much.  Your kid will probably end up talking to a therapist about it one day.  My in-laws did something similar and now my husband realizes how foolish they were.  His dad has had to work a few more years before retirement and for little to no benefit.  [/quote]

What's sad is your view of living in a townhouse and driving older cars. Sounds pompous and out of touch.[/quote]

+1, if you're already living in the suburbs in a townhouse, why not at least live in a suburb with decent public schools, and save yourself 30k a year. What you are doing seems impractical and foolish. [/quote]

What is your definition of decent public schools? We live in Fairfax county, and frankly, the schools suck. 30+ kids per class, 3 out of 4 teachers our kid had were awful, there is no new material taught after March because it's all SOL review, and literally nothing is taught after the SOLs, science is pretty much non-existent until middle school...I could go on. Will a kid learn enough to graduate and get into a college? Probably. Will that kid have an enriching and well rounded education and develop a true love of learning? Definitely not. Education is something you only get one chance at. I can see the value in doing it right.  [/quote]

I'm with you. I went to a "good" public school, and it was nowhere near what my son is getting a private school. I was miserable, but my parents couldn't afford private school… All their money was tied up in the house. I deliberately chose the opposite for my family. It means a lot to me too have the power to move him to a different school if this one doesn't suit him, we're not trapped by our local public.  Frankly, I think the 13 years of primary and secondary school are more important then the subsequent four years of college.

Everybody makes different choices… And, seemingly, everyone else takes other people's choices as a referendum on their own.[/quote]

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