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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids attended public school but are now at private universities. I would never give a cent more than outrageously exorbitant tuition. I am well aware that my dollars go to the top administration's second home's pool budget, and not the living expenses of the hard-working teachers.

The USA, contrary to other countries, has decided that wants an arms race of who can poach which high-earning administrator to its school. This is where the waste is. For many private schools, money is also spent on completely unnecessary luxuries that have nothing to do with academics and their core mission to educate (instead of wildly entertaining and cushioning).

All good reasons why I didn't actually pay for private K-12. I am willing to pay for private unis if they're in the top 10 for my kids' majors, since those come with certain professional advantages. But no donations. [/quote]

This surprises me. Our HOS receives a high but fair salary. They're basically on-call 24 hours/day and have to be available for everything all the time. They're consoling a kid in the hallway one minute, managing a staffing issue the next, and meeting with a high level donor the next hour all while fielding calls about some very complex legal issue that the school is facing. Ours definitely doesn't have a 2nd home, but rather a kind of meh rental (because they relocated from a less expensive area).[/quote]

Do you feel this type of context switching and multi tasking is unique to HOS?  Folks in non-profits do this all day everyday.  Your HOS might not be making a lot but there are plenty of them who are.  Further, a great amount of the fundraising and tuition increases are not going to teacher raises or even building upkeep as much as it’s going to new buildings/ facilities / campus that really aren’t needed. Why are some HS trying to rival small college campus or boarding schools?[/quote]

I’m not sure what school you’re talking about, but I’m a private school trustee and our tuition increase (and I mean 100%) goes straight to teacher and staff salary and benefit increases. When our HOS earns an increase and it can’t be covered with the tuition increase that ups the operating budget, cuts are made in areas with more fungibility, like specific savings buckets or nice-but-not-mandatory facilities upgrades. And by facilities upgrades, I mean changing fixtures in the arts wing to LEDs, not building a new auditorium.

There are probably 10 schools in the entire country that are spending money hand-over-fist in the hysterical way described by Op. The rest are running way more lean than anyone wants to imagine.[/quote]

Could be leaner with fewer donations. [/quote]

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