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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can I force this issue or am I in the wrong? I am sole breadwinner, make about 500k so money isn't an issue but wife wants our 2 kids to go to private school for middle and high school. The school is about 30k per year. That's about $700k I'm pre tax money and not counting college.

I went to public school my whole life, including a good state school so my tuition from kindergarten through end of grad school was about the cost of one year of this middle school, combined.  I think private school is a waste, unless you are in a bad school district or your kid has unique needs.

Leaving aside I could retire several years earlier if we sent the kids to the good, local public school, I feel my wife has lost the sense of what a dollar is. She isn't a spendthrift on other areas. I feel like if this is so important, then she can work with basically every penny she earns going to pay tuition.

How do I raise this without blowing things up?[/quote]

Fascinating. I had the exact opposite of this scenario happen in our extended family recently. BIL and SIL don't make as much as you but SIL wanted their youngest child to try private (after so-so results with the two older children at the local public). SAHM volunteered to go back to work to cover tuition. Husband is a controlling egomaniac who refused and guilt tripped her; ex. a "real man" doesn't make their wife work and he felt she was belittling him. So the kid is in public school and the SAHM posts nonsense on Facebook all day because she's bored out of her mind.[/quote]

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