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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wait I thought the standard was 1 week tuition, to be split evenly across the teachers?[/quote]

BWAH HAHAHA.  This is a joke, right?  Like the man is supposed to spend 3 months of his salary on the engagement ring?[/quote]

Not a joke. That's normal. [/quote]

This is "normal" only if you are affluent or you like adhering to arbitrary rules. My husband did not spend 3 months of salary on my engagement ring, he spent what he could afford and he still ended up taking out a zero interest credit card and paying it off over the course of a year. Similarly, we are not going to spend a week of tuition money on our daughter's caregivers. For us that would be an extra $500 at a time of year when we are already stretched thin between family gifts for the holidays and expensive cross country flights. We will be giving each of DD's 5 caregivers at her home day care $40 or $50 each, and that's still a sacrifice for us. Yes, we value our caregivers. Yes, we understand that they are underpaid and wish it weren't so. Yes, we make over $100K. However we also do not own a home, do not have inherited family money, have had major medical bills this year, and have spent the last decade paying down over $100K of combined student loans, saving for a down payment for a home, and paying for our wedding.

OP and PP, you need to read up a little bit about privilege and understand that people give what they can afford. [/quote]

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