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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thats very generous of you but I would imagine that large of a gift could benefit many families more needy than one at a private school...[/quote]

You realize that there are many students in need at private schools, correct?[/quote]

They're in need but required to pay tuition? True need has tution covered...again this isn't a HHI of 100K per year type of needy.[/quote]

I'm a little stumped at how someone in need gets a free private school tuition.  NP here.  Not trying to be an ass, but it genuinely would not occur to me to stay at a school I could not afford.

I would feel differently if there were not great public schools in the area, but there are.  That, and I have heard sob stories by people whose IL's were covering the tuition. So, maybe my perspective has made me cynical - I just think (like PP) that the money could be used for another family who does not have the enormous luxury of private school.  It never occurred to me to feel entitled to private school, that's all. [/quote]

You are an ASS because its not about bean counting when a crisis hits a family- its about maintaining the stability of children's lives - plus the parent who shared the story did not ask for the help from anyone- it was given unsolicited by someone who had enough genuine compassion and humility to know that the parent would have likely turned them down if they had offered to help loan them money.

By way of example Leonard Tose helped set up, promote and fund the 1st Ronald McDonald house so that parents of kids being treated for Cancer and other life threatening conditions over a long period of time could have a place to sleep at night a block or two from the Hospital that was free, a supportive environment and not because the parents with their kids with Cancer couldn't afford a hotel room- but so that they could feel supported and have things made easier for them[/quote]

Parent of the sick kid here again, Ronald McDonald House does charge.  Not as much as a comparable hotel might charge, but it's only free for families who can't afford to pay.  In some circumstances Medicaid pays the cost.  
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