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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be helpful if people specified elementary, middle or high school.  My experience is that the kids don't really notice or care about the differences in incomes/ experiences until middle school.[/quote]

I disagree. Even little kids want to go to the same summer camp as their friend and have the same video games as their friends or go to the same private swim team or soccer club or have their birthday party at the same place. It starts early -- it isn't about noticing the differences, so much as expecting and asking for the same. So you start saying no earlier and more frequently and teaching those life lessons PPs talk about pretty much right away. Nothing wrong with that, but it does start right away.

BTW, it also happens to a degree in the public schools, particularly if the school has economic diversity. Some do, some don't. It's all relative.[/quote]

Good point about noticing differences in public too.  We have a two in elementary and definitely have to make sacrifices to send them to private.  We are not wealthy and do have family money.  We live in a small house, etc...For us and our children being of more modest means has not changed our experience at all.  We have not encountered what the pp described, ie desire to go to certain camps, vacations, etc. although I have no doubt that may change and we are ok with that.  Life is not fair and we see no reason why are kids should not learn that lesson now--their whole lives someone will have something that they do not and they will have things, such as a private school education, that others do not.  For what's its worth ALL the parents at our kids' school could not be nicer or more welcoming.  Would our loves be different if were did something else with $70, 000 pretax?  I'm sure but we are very content with what we have and think that the experience our kids have had at their school is well worth every penny and relative sacrifice.  I wouldn't be happy with a bigger house, going out frequently to dinner, etc., if I felt like our children's education was compromised.  So , to answer your question op, life as a family at an elite NWDC Private who can just barely afford it is actually pretty awesome.  [/quote]

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