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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that private school is for families with 800k+ HHI. I know that in ten years children will be mostly attending the same schools and in twenty years most of them will be working at the same places making similar salaries. But both child and I LOVE the school. We are a fed family so making 300s. Market has bumped up our retirement to 1m and brokerage to another 1m. Some 529 that can also be tapped. Home is almost paid off and 2 investment properties. Can we afford 60k tuition and fees for 4 years for one child? Obviously no FA. [/quote]

Private school has nothing to do with getting a higher quality education. It costs $0 to learn, to accumulate knowledge, to build leadership, and to develop strong character. Private school is for parents that are too lazy to enforce rigor and discipline and for spoon-fed children that are incapable of rising above the distractions inherent in everyday life. So, OP, if either you or your children fall into these latter categories – if your family requires extra help overcoming adversity – then, by all means, push forward and go private. You can’t afford NOT to make the investment in this situation. These types of schools were explicitly created to provide a coddled environment for indolent guardians and the intellectually challenged. Hey…if the shoe fits….[/quote]

LOL private school is for anyone who can afford it and anyone who feels their public school pyramid sucks.  And many do these days.  Pubic schools are suffering severe grade inflation as we speak and colleges are onto it. My kid is in private and has to get a 93 to achieve an A and maintain that grade for the entire semester (no marking periods to average). On the other hand, MCPS will give a semester grade of A to any kid who gets 79.5 and 89.5 in the two marking periods (B + A = A for semester). If that were my kid's school, that would equate to a solid B for the semester. Like I said, colleges know this and are looking to other factors to evaluate students. Grades are are pretty meaningless now in public schools. Hoping more and more colleges move back to standardized testing required.  Add to all of this the fighting, vaping and sex in the bathrooms, and everything else, I would never send my kid to public even if money were tight...and I live in a very very strong school district.

Take a peek at this thread for more insight on grade deflation at MCPS and the impact on college admissions. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1192373.page[/quote]

Hate to break it to you but fighting, vaping, and sex and everything else, happens at private schools as well. But you keep thinking it doesn’t if that makes you feel better about the $200K you just spent on a private school. Bless your heart.[/quote]

As someone with kids in both this is unequivocally not true.

I’ve yet to see ambulances pull up regularly to the private school. My kid in private doesn’t have to hold it all day to avoid the danger and utter grossness of the bathrooms. There hasn’t been any fights that caused an ambulance ride at private. My kid can carry a backpack into class in private. It goes on and on and on. [/quote]

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