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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No can't afford it.

Just my salary alone (guaranteed income) is higher than your HHI and I don't even count our stock income. We send our kids to public school and bought our house well below what we "can" afford.[/quote]

Wow what a greedy lousy parent you are.  I'll be you drive a $100K car and travel to Europe every year too.  But can't afford private school. Your poor kids.[/quote]

I never said I can't afford private school for my kids. I choose not to, because I like to spend my money where there is value and good return on my investment. My kids go to very good public schools. I am a product of public school system myself and I don't think I was disserviced by it. I just don't buy into the notion that private schools are necessarily better.

We try to spend our money wisely, make investments, and take care of our kids and their future in other ways. Yes, we take European vacations as a family. I think it is important for my kids to learn about different cultures and be exposed to different ways of thinking. But no, I am not materialist and selfish as you seem to suggest.
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You’re fine. PP is just a jealous loser who makes less than you and stretches to send her kids to private. She can’t stand it when more successful people don’t validate her decision to send her kids to private, and she’ll throw a bigger fit when her kids get into worse colleges than all the public school kids.[/quote]

I am the PP and yes, we did sacrifice initially, but our HHI is very very high now and our net worth is over $10M.  So no, not jealous at all.[/quote]

PS oldest is a senior and got into a top 20.[/quote]

That's nice. Around us most of the private school kids are going to Tech and JMU, same as the public school kids. And if your kid actually goes to a T20, they probably would have gotten in from public too. [/quote]

Unlikely. The particular school he got into likes privte school kids...specifically Catholic ones.  Now you know which school.[/quote]

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