Tuition breaks for teachers are a huge draw for recruitment.

Schools and staff all seem to be rather opaque on this topic. It allows them the leverage to offer more to some and less to others, or to change longheld internal practices without much oversight.

I'm slightly irked by the private teacher I know who gets FA, but I also know her parents foot the tuition bill. I don't know how she manages this, nor would the school want to tell me. But I know for a fact she gets a huge tuition discount AND she isn't the one paying it. So, loophole found.

This has been brought up on this board many times. I recommend using the search feature.

Everyone should get the same amount at th3e school. This BS about principals getting 100 percent and some teachers getting 50 and others 25 is not ok

Tuition discounts, at varying levels depending on school (and likely also varying with family financials), for both faculty and staff are not unusual, but also are not universal. It is pretty common to give admissions preference to faculty/staff, iff that faculty/staff member has an academically-qualified DC.

In the last 50 years, I do not know of any school where children of faculty/staff were free. However, one PP’s comment above suggests StA might have been completely free for faculty decades ago

Anonymous wrote:Some do 50% tuition plus you can apply for financial aid.
For a long time, Potomac gave none and had people apply for FA but my understanding is they realized everyone qualified for at least 50% so they've gone to that.

I know a Potomac faculty member who has two kids who will graduate as lifers. Their spouse isn’t in a super demanding or high-paying job.

Some do 50% tuition plus you can apply for financial aid.
For a long time, Potomac gave none and had people apply for FA but my understanding is they realized everyone qualified for at least 50% so they've gone to that.

None at Sidwell.

Prep also gives full tuition

Anonymous wrote:I heard the kids of teachers at a local private school no longer get full tuition. At one point, every kid of a teacher (or staff member) got to go for free, then one kid only, and now less than one. What is standard in DMV privates?

Other than St Alban’s full tuition hasn’t been the norm in my lifetime.

It starts after 5 years at my school I think at something like 10% and rises over time? It applies to all your kids who are the right gender. Mine are the opposite so I never investigated.

There is no tuition discount at our school.

Less than full tuition for one kid, as in teacher has a kid enrolled so they get half off the tuition.

Anonymous wrote:I heard the kids of teachers at a local private school no longer get full tuition. At one point, every kid of a teacher (or staff member) got to go for free, then one kid only, and now less than one. What is standard in DMV privates?

How many is less than one?

I heard the kids of teachers at a local private school no longer get full tuition. At one point, every kid of a teacher (or staff member) got to go for free, then one kid only, and now less than one. What is standard in DMV privates?