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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s pretty obnoxious that the schools don’t do more. [/quote]

I think you get a pretty significant preference for purposes of admission.[/quote]

False. My child was denied admission at my school. [/quote]

That's pretty messed up.[/quote]

I knew of multiple kids of faculty who were not admitted during my 15 years teaching at a private.

One of the other posters mentioned leaving after having child #2, and I did the same after having my 3rd because all of my salary was going to daycare & it was a horrible commute (we could only afford to buy 45 mins away from the school). I have my kids in public schools now and I teach at a public.

It was demoralizing to give your all to a teaching at a school that our family wouldn’t be able to afford for our own kids (even w the 50% remission). [/quote]

I’m the poster above. What I meant to say is that it is NOT a given that children of faculty and staff will be granted admission.

At the MD private school where I taught, there were lots of faculty kids, but I also knew of several faculty kids who were not admitted or who were counseled out (I imagine due to the children needing some specific learning supports that the school was not equipped to deal with).

I also knew of several faculty members who had their kids in public k-8 due to finances and then their kids applied & got in for HS.

Please note that all the children of contracted employees of the schools (for example the dining & catering staff, the cleaning  maintenance staff) are not eligible for any of the benefits afforded to faculty and staff & this includes tuition remission. The schools are increasingly contracting these services out. Even though these contracted employees are so VERY central to the functioning of the school and, often are very beloved members of the community (by both students & faculty. This always bothered me that these hardworking folks were treated in this way at schools with such incredible wealth. The school will always go with the bid that saves them most money with no regard to how it impacts the most vulnerable people in the community.

The community service & charity drives mean very little when you have people working on your campus living paycheck to paycheck with no paid sick leave. It went against our school’s mission statement.

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