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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here - thanks for all the comments and insights from all perspectives. It's interesting that some people immediately think one is entitled because one makes a certain amount of money. Far from it. My husband and I each owned our own homes before we got married. We lived in one initially and rented the other. We bought a house in NE DC a few years later together that cost $200k and was not habital. No functioning electric, plumbing etc. we bought it with a 203k renovation loan which allowed us to do $100k worth of renovations. Some may know that making a 3 bedroom 1 bath home liveable costs more than $100k when one needs everything (and I mean everything - hgtv has nothing on us). We've made some of what we hope are wise choices and have lived extremely frugally throughout. I still drive my very first car out of college which was 15 years old last year. My husbands car is 11 years old. Entitled we are not. Determined to continue to make wise choices we are. Hence my post asking if we'd qualify for any FA as our neighborhood schools aren't quite where we'd like them to be.

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What I gather from your posting here, you just are cheap ("frugal") and don't want to pay the hefty price tag that comes along with private school. You want to get a deal on private school like you did your houses, car, etc.  You will not be happy paying for the tutition plus all the other expenses that will come along with private school.

If you really believe that high school is most important than why even bother sending your kids to private now.  Use public and supplement or pick a Catholic school and continue to save.

And yes, you are truly entitled.

I get FA for my child - single income, just under 6 figures, cheap, older car, renting a cheap, older house - plus little to no savings, no down payment for a house, no vacations, I barely even buy new clothes, can't eat out, - and the list go on. So you have no idea what it means to be frugal.  [/quote]

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