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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am assuming your children attend independent schools.  How are the fees compared to Sidwell?

Do you have private health insurance?

Do you employ Polish or Slovakians as household help?[/quote]

I’m sure OP will answer, but generally UK independent schools are MUCH cheaper than in the US.

Take Thomas’s Battersea for example, which is the school little Prince George attends. The fees are something like 6,500 pounds a year. They go up to 7,200 when the kid is 8-13 years old.

https://www.thomas-s.co.uk/our-schools/battersea/admissions/fees-and-bursaries[/quote]

I have to point out that these fees are per term, not per year. There are three terms in a year. So triple that amount. [/quote]

Ok. Still. So that's about $25,000/year for the younger kids and $27,000 for the older kids. Still way less expensive than the top private schools here. [/quote]

Yes, but what are the unwritten rules for who gets in?  I imagine they use some pretty selective/judgemental criteria for admission of students - no matter their family income.  [/quote]

Brit here again. For some of these schools you need to put your child's name down when you're pregnant or as soon as they are born. But I've read the private school threads on this board and I wouldn't say that it's any easier getting into schools here![/quote]

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