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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I went to private from k-12. We are in our 40's and send our kids to private. I went to Ivy League college and husband went to a top private college. Can't give away more than that for fear of identifying myself. Overall, both my husband and I are beyond grateful to our parents for our private K-12 education. We both credit who we are and what we are to our private education. However, we don't care whether the kids appreciate it or not. I This is a decision we are making as their parents for a variety of reasons. As previous posters have commented, ensure that that college and retirement is funded otherwise there will be guaranteed resentment later on if you can't pay for Stanford or your own needs when you get old. Do not listen to those projecting their insecurities on you due to their lack of being jealous or insecure of wealthy people when they went to private school. Public schools in many areas of the DMV are either crap or over crowded so many parents are in the same boat of wanting the best for their kids and scrimping to do it. Plenty of people with HHI of 500 and less are sending kids to private. Our private costs 30k a year and there are literally only 2 families that are mega wealthy in our kids class. Everyone else is in the same boat, old navy, clipping coupons, and local beach vacations.  [/quote]

I wonder about this mythical private school where everyone clips coupons and wears old navy.  The people I know whose kids are in private school do none of those things but many of them aren't stretching.  [/quote]

yes, where do you live where your private school colleagues are clipping coupons?  I live in NW DC and the private school families I know (approx 100 families between neighbors, church friends, preschool friends, travel sports friends, etc are not scrimping or coupon cutting in the least.  [/quote]

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