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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of kids at a private school, I love the idea that teachers' kids would go for free and think that is a worthwhile goal that would attract me to the school as a non-teacher.

It is a fabulous perk, retention tool, and just an all-around nice thing to do for families who dedicate a lot of themselves for teaching my kids.

Anyway, adding my two cents in case anyone in school administration reads this thread.[/quote]

My kids attended a school where over 60% of the kids were teacher/staff/administration kids attended for free. So, we, as full paying parents were paying for the whole class. I think teachers should receive a benefit, but the schools should limit it. One thing people don't mention is that all employees typically receive the same benefit (the bus driver's kids, the receptionist's kids, the karate teacher's kids) and it's huge. Too, I agree with PP who said you can tell the teachers who work at a school just for remission. Guess what, they always leave when their kids leaves.[/quote]

I can't wrap my head around a statistical situation where over 60% of a student body could be children of employees, unless employees had 5+ kids each or something or the school were tiny.  With an at least 10:1 ratio of students to employees (and that is being generously low) I can't figure out how this computes ...[/quote]

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