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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope FA families are taking note.  No matter how good the rhetoric at your school, this is what people really think. Wow. [/quote]

Has there been another thread about this? There must be, but I haven’t seen it. The OP sounds very petty and bitter. I’m not a SAHM, but my mother was and she worked so hard to take care of us and our home. I couldn’t put a dollar figure on what she did for all of us. If there was a Target back then, I’m sure she would have been there getting us what we needed (you said that was one of this woman’s common activities). I quit FB because I find it stressful, but when I did do it, it didn’t take any time to throw up a post. 
OP, this SAHM might be an extreme case. I don’t know any who don’t [b]clean, cook, run all errands, and a myriad of other things[/b]. [/quote]

That would be the same stuff that working mothers do while also paying for a SAHMs tuition. [/quote]

Well, bully for you. Give yourself a cookie! Being so “busy” doesn’t make you a better person than a SAHM. Some families value having a calm, relaxed home with a SAHM over a harried, frazzled, stressed-out household with two working parents. Let me say it again until it sinks in. You do you.[/quote]

Sure, most people would love not be frazzled and stressed out.  And many families choose to go public to make it more feasible for only one parent to work, or work full time.  But it’s a bit rich for you to talk about how great it is be relaxed while all those frazzled families are paying for part of your tuition because you get to enjoy not being harried.[/quote]

You still have a lot of expenses in public if you have two parents working as you still need before/after school child care.  Sometimes a cheaper private with care is the same price as a public with care.[/quote]

Do you mean a cheaper private with a SAHP can be the same as public with two working parents who need before and/or aftercare?

I’ll assume yes.  First, nothing says you have to have both parents work when you go public.  It would be easier to have only one parent work at public than even a cheaper private, so I’m not sure you are comparing the right things.

But even accepting your premise, I think your numbers will be off unless you have a very large family or an exceptionally cheap private.

An expensive before/after care is around $500.  Many are cheaper and many families don’t need both before and after, even with two working families.  If you need that for 10 months, that is $5,000 per kid.  You aren’t going to equal the cost of most private schools without quite the brood.

For a large family attending the Parrish school, maybe your math works, and that would only be if you got a big discount for each extra kid’s tuition.  Otherwise, more kids just means more tuitions to pay.[/quote]

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