Anonymous
07/10/2025 17:11
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I get it, this is one reason why I pulled my sons out of private and got our local public. Fortunately we are zones for one of the best publics in the country.
+1
We left private too. We were there during the height of the "racial reckoning" and "honest conversations about race" that followed COVID, where the white students were all made to feel like racists who needed to "check their privilege" simply because of who they were. In class discussions they were marginalized because they did not have the "life experience" of the less fortunate so many times that they lost interest in class participation. Our family was paying full tuition for two boys, plus donations on top of that, because we could afford it and it seemed like the right thing to do. We knew that we subsidizing less fortunate students, which we were fine with at first, but when our sons were treated as less worthy due to their so-called privilege, it was time to move on. They are in public school now where the education is great (so long as you load up on AP's and dual enrollment) and they are much happier and our life as a family is much easier. School is ten minutes from home we are saving a ton of $$. Each family needs to make its own decision, but if you feel like you are being ripped off by your private school, you probably are.
Curious which public school you are at, if you don’t mind sharing?
Anonymous
07/10/2025 16:50
Subject: Enough is enough
Hamsters are smarter
Anonymous
07/10/2025 14:20
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.
So close. You can do it!
You are about as clever as my pet hamster.
LOL at you for having a pet hamster. As mentioned already, this has nothing to do with being clever, and everything to do with how you misuse the word “forced.”
Perhaps the PP is forced to have a hamster.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 11:17
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.
So close. You can do it!
You are about as clever as my pet hamster.
LOL at you for having a pet hamster. As mentioned already, this has nothing to do with being clever, and everything to do with how you misuse the word “forced.”
Anonymous
07/10/2025 10:58
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:I get it, this is one reason why I pulled my sons out of private and got our local public. Fortunately we are zones for one of the best publics in the country.
+1
We left private too. We were there during the height of the "racial reckoning" and "honest conversations about race" that followed COVID, where the white students were all made to feel like racists who needed to "check their privilege" simply because of who they were. In class discussions they were marginalized because they did not have the "life experience" of the less fortunate so many times that they lost interest in class participation. Our family was paying full tuition for two boys, plus donations on top of that, because we could afford it and it seemed like the right thing to do. We knew that we subsidizing less fortunate students, which we were fine with at first, but when our sons were treated as less worthy due to their so-called privilege, it was time to move on. They are in public school now where the education is great (so long as you load up on AP's and dual enrollment) and they are much happier and our life as a family is much easier. School is ten minutes from home we are saving a ton of $$. Each family needs to make its own decision, but if you feel like you are being ripped off by your private school, you probably are.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 10:54
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.
So close. You can do it!
You are about as clever as my pet hamster.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 10:50
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.
So close. You can do it!
Anonymous
07/10/2025 10:32
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.
Kinda like how the people who didn’t serve in the military are enjoying freedoms they themselves didn’t protect.
Taxes pay for military to protect freedoms as well as public schools.
Private schools are completely different.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 10:09
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good. Glad someone is calling these schools out. St Mary’s tuition seems ti go up every year by 5 pct or more, PLUS large increases in fees this year.
How else will schools pay for the rising costs of benefits for faculty and staff? You realize these costs go up every year, right?
By getting rid of the staff members whose contributions to actual education are minimal.
People don't get how much bloat there is in private education. You could fire half the admin with no changes to the quality of the education
Anonymous
07/10/2025 10:04
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good. Glad someone is calling these schools out. St Mary’s tuition seems ti go up every year by 5 pct or more, PLUS large increases in fees this year.
How else will schools pay for the rising costs of benefits for faculty and staff? You realize these costs go up every year, right?
By getting rid of the staff members whose contributions to actual education are minimal.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 09:58
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.
Kinda like how the people who didn’t serve in the military are enjoying freedoms they themselves didn’t protect.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 09:52
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.
Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.
The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.
This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.
Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.
The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.
Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.
Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?
At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.
Forced? Really?
You mean, like, at gunpoint?
If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.
+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.
If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.
Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.
If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.
Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.
Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.
If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid
Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.
Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️
Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?
You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?
Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.
For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.
There was an old post that was blocked where a person was suggesting to restrict financial aid to few people that cannot truly pay for private school, and excluding middle class families that can go to cheaper private schools (lets say catholic schools) or good public schools. Why the tuition bill have to be split between some middle class parents that dont want to pay full tuition and other middle class parents that are willing to work harder to pay full tuition. There is something off about the financial aid system. This is a legitimate point. But you can troll if you dont want to respond with arguments.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 08:53
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.
Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.
The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.
This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.
Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.
The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.
Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.
Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?
At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.
Forced? Really?
You mean, like, at gunpoint?
If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.
+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.
If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.
Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.
If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.
Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.
Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.
If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid
Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.
Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️
Wow, please tell me more about how you would like to spend my money. Nobody else is paying for my kids. Why should I have to bailout deadbeat parents who can’t even cover tuition?
You don’t have to. Unless you’re being “forced.” How are you being “forced”?
Full pay tuition at private schools includes $5k-$10k of tuition that funds financial aid. There is no way to opt out. It is a requirement of attending these schools.
For the responsible parents who are paying for their own children, they have to also cover for the financial aid parents. Many FA parents are pursuing underpaid, leisurely jobs while the real adults are paying their bills.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 08:18
Subject: Enough is enough
I get it, this is one reason why I pulled my sons out of private and got our local public. Fortunately we are zones for one of the best publics in the country.
Anonymous
07/10/2025 07:55
Subject: Enough is enough
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The financial aid parents are already free loading off the the tuition that full pay families are paying. If you are full pay, you are already contributing more than average due to the free loaders.
Eliminating financial aid programs would lower tuition by at least $5k-10k per year at most private schools.
The government is already providing these kids with public school. Financial aid is an unnecessary expense.
This would ensure a complete lack of socioeconomic diversity in private schools, which I suspect is totally fine with you.
Schools should focus on the type of diversity they don’t have to pay for through financial aid.
The market disagrees with your view. Plenty of other full pay applicants out there willing to pay the going rate.
Give them a choice and find out for yourself. There is currently no way to opt out.
Oh really? Parents are involuntarily paying tuition to their schools?
At the major DC area privates, parents are paying at least $5k-$10k of their annual full pay tuition towards the financial aid programs and there is no way to opt out. Financial aid is a major part of the school’s budget despite the availability of public schools. The private school parents are being forced to pay for the classmates on financial aid.
Forced? Really?
You mean, like, at gunpoint?
If you don’t like it, public schools are available. No FA.
+1. Public schools are a great option for parents who are bitter about their private school’s practices.
If you want to know why tuition is so high, the answer is the financial aid program.
Not bitter just explaining this because the exact reason is well known.
If the entirety of Sidwell’s financial aid budget was applied instead as a tuition discount, it would knock about $8,750 off of tuition that currently runs $51-58k. Try again.
Jackpot. Almost $10k of tuition at Sidwell is due to the financial aid program. It is even higher elsewhere.
Lol. You said “if you want to know why tuition is so high.” If there was zero financial aid, it would still be ~$42-50k. Financial aid is not why it is high. And no, it is generally not higher elsewhere, Sidwell has very generous aid.
If $8,750 is so important to you, you should be at a public school. Or apply for financial aid
Would never qualify for financial aid myself. Just don’t want to be paying for kids that aren’t mine.
Ah, spoken like a typical self-involved A hole Sidwell parent ❤️