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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure why people think private school should be affordable or are surprised that it's mainly the wealthy who attend.  It's not easy pinning down specific numbers, but the MCPS budget/students works out to about $16K/student, and I suspect that DC, Fairfax, etc. are similar.  Private schools, unless they are subsidized like some Catholic schools, are going to be more expensive to far more expensive than that.  Even "affordable" privates can be $25K+/year, and that's a huge luxury even for those with high incomes if you have multiple kids.  Everyone is already paying for public school in some fashion, and despite the DL debacles of the spring, the local systems are good to excellent.  We're extremely fortunate to have had a high HHI for enough years to save for private so it doesn't affect retirement or college savings, but if we hadn't, we likely would have stayed in public.  [/quote]

because people who make 300k think they're UMC and don't like finding out that there are things outside of their reach [/quote]

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