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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope you are saving enough each month for private college as well OP! That is one thing your kids won't thank you for later on, if you are prioritizing paying for private high school over private college (I can't tell from your OP if this is the case or not). In high school, they will be taught to aim high at the top universities and SLACs and it will come as a nasty shock to them if you expect them to settle for UVA or take out loans when theoretically you could have been saving all this time for them to attend their dream school. They will be surrounded by kids who wont' have to settle or choose and they will become bitter and resentful that they do. You are in essence teaching them to have champagne tastes on a beer budget by sending them to schools you can't really afford.

I am still paying back my student loans in my mid thirties and I wish my parents had prioritized the other way around. Private college first, followed by money for grad school (I went to law school), then private high school if there was any money left over, then k-8 if they really felt the need. But honestly, for most bright, motivated students, public school is "good enough." Yeah, if you have a lot of extra m one lying around, private k-12 is a "nice to have" luxury. But it's not a necessity, especially if you can't afford it.[/quote]

Oh, please, UVA is hardly settling. The comments on DCUM are ridiculous.[/quote]

It is if you've lived all your life in VA. Kids want to go away to someplace new and exciting for college. You sound like you don't know any teenagers. They are not known for practicality or financial prudence. All they will hear at private school, where they will be surrounded by families with more money then sense is, "Best friend A is going to Williams! OMG! Best friend B is going to Stanford! OMG! Kid C is going to U Chicago! OMG! That fucking loser is going to NYU! OMG. The Valedictorian is going to Harvard! OMG.". And your kid will be going to UVA  :roll:  Big whoop.[/quote]

Right. UVA is a good school but to many teenagers growing up in state, it does feel like settling in the sense of not going anywhere exciting. The OP asked if his/her kids will be grateful that she scrimped and saved all their lives to put them through private k-12. And if they have to go public/take out student loans for college and grad school because of that, the answer is, probably not. [/quote]

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