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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers do get a 50 percent discount at the big 5 I believe.[/quote]

Of course some teachers and principals get a discount or tuition remission. It's part of the benefit package. [/quote]

It varies widely by school.  As best I know, of the major independent schools in this area only St. Albans still seems to have the 100% tuition remission (assuming the child qualifies for admission academically).  The tuition remission benefit can come under attack because it leads to what are known as "lumpy benefits" -- the teacher with three kids at the school is effectively compensated more than the childless teacher, for example -- and because it can be expensive if the faculty is relatively young with lots of school-age children.  Some other schools have a partial discount, or have a formula in financial aid that is beneficial to the teacher's family, in some way.  Because St. Albans is all-boys and starts in grade 4, they would almost certainly have fewer faculty/staff children eligible for tuition remission than a Pre-K through 12 co-ed school.

The argument for tuition remission is that it can be a great benefit to attract and retain talented teachers (as noted, private school benefits are less generous than public school benefits in many areas, including the DMV).  It can also be a strange dynamic when trying to build a real community to have a school where virtually no teacher's child can attend because of the cost.  (Boarding schools are more likely to have tuition remission than day schools, perhaps because of the "school as community" issue.)

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NCS does not have this benefit.[/quote]

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