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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a huge piece of information missing from this article. SSFS does not start giving financial aid until Kindergarten. This is stated on their financial aid page and has been for years. This child would have been in PK, so financial aid was never going to be an option. Between the parent's lack of reading the contract before signing, and an apparent lack of financial aid research, I fail to see how the school is at fault.[/quote]

No doubt that the school is legally correct and that the parent was unsophisticated and naive about how things work. But that doesn't change the school's moral culpability, IMO.[/quote]

+1 Not to mention she got the advice to apply, and assurances that financial aid would be possible, from a current SSFS family. I'm not saying that family intentionally led her astray, but it's pretty defensible and relatable to me that a youngish mom who grew up in poverty, and who found herself with a bright kid whose needs were not being served in publicly-funded preK, would take the word of someone who presumably was much less naive.

But even if we think this single mom who hadn't finished university yet should have diligently read the contract, AND understood she was on the hook for tuition even though she had not put down a deposit, the question of SSFS pursuing this money is still morally and financially suspect. She has -$140 in her bank account! They will not get their money, and they will ruin a family on the brink of breaking out of poverty in the process. 
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