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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to send my DD to private school and have seen a few I really love, but I'm having a really hard time figuring out how this could be at all feasible financially.

The schools are so expensive, and we wouldn't qualify for a need-based scholarship. We are scraping by but don't have that kind of money to spend year after year, and we have two kids (one is a baby).

I stay at home now with our baby and would like to for at least another year or two. Going back to work would give us a second income, but it would also mean increased childcare costs. My DH works in government and makes a decent but not huge salary, and before staying home, I worked at a non-profit and made very little. I do have an education background (though more admin than teaching), so I guess getting a job at the school and free/reduced tuition could be a goal, but that seems like a long-shot and hard to plan for, especially since my older DD would go there for a few years before I'd start if I stay home with our younger kid.

Any thoughts? How do you make this work if you don't have a lot of extra funds? Is it worth it?[/quote]

Dual Income.  When my spouse and I married, we both knew we would each keep working once kids arrived.  It wasn't even a question based on our personalities.  We love our kids, but neither one of us was ever going to be stay at home.  It was challenging enough to figure out who would stop traveling for work and who would have a local job.  It's worked out great and now the $ from that have enabled private schools and fully funded college accounts (250K+) for each child.  But we did give up a lot in terms of seeing our kids 24/7 and the other things that SAHP get.

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