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Anonymous wrote:It looks like most don't. It seems really crappy that most of these schools wouldn't even let the children of their teachers attend.

It's been my experience that even if a school does not have remission, they will give enough aid to teachers to make it possible for their children to attend-- not to mention admissions priority, which is no small thing.

I know a number of private school teachers with kids in public, including kids who would otherwise be eligible for the school (grade, gender if applicable, caliber of student.

NCS and STA both offer tuition remission. NCS is fairly recent, hence some confusion on the subject.

My spouse teaches private and our kids go to free to that school as well as the "sister" school

No. It is very rare. I think St. Albans might still do this.

At many privates a substantial portion of their total pool of financial aid goes to teacher families.

No. I teach in an independent school and I don't. Most schools offer 50% off except for Catholic which doesn't offer any. NCS none but st Albans 100%

Anonymous wrote:It looks like most don't. It seems really crappy that most of these schools wouldn't even let the children of their teachers attend.

It's been my experience that even if a school does not have remission, they will give enough aid to teachers to make it possible for their children to attend-- not to mention admissions priority, which is no small thing.

2 schools where I've taught give 50%, and one of those (I suspect) gives more depending on each teacher's family's circumstances.

Anonymous wrote:It looks like most don't. It seems really crappy that most of these schools wouldn't even let the children of their teachers attend.

At our school the children of teachers and staff get admissions priority (similar to a sibling priority) but no tuition remission. These kids are eligible for financial aid just like all students at the school. If the teacher is the sole wage earner in the household, that child would likely get full tuition covered. If the teacher is married to a big law partner making $1million a year, that child would get no aid. Everything else falls somewhere in the middle where the teachers family would get some aid, but not a full ride.

My understanding is that there was a lot of tension among the staff when there was tuition remission because it was a very high value job benefit that only some teachers were eligible for.

It looks like most don't. It seems really crappy that most of these schools wouldn't even let the children of their teachers attend.

Anonymous wrote:Some do and some don't.

One school, STA does that I know of. Other places.might give partial remission after a certain # of years.

Some do and some don't.

Answers here:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/226396.page

I'm thinking specifically about the big, but would be interested in knowing whether it's true for any of the DC privates.