Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 10:45     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This has been brought up on this board many times. I recommend using the search feature.
I imagine it has been asked over the past two decades. It’s helpful to know what’s going on today.


Yeah, except the most recent discussion about this happened a few months ago.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1081138.page
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 10:41     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.

Maybe the school determined that with the amount her parents could afford to assist, she still qualified for FA. You don’t know what her financial situation is. Mind your own business.


I mean, it is my business if I pay tuition to the school and make annual donations to the annual fund. How the FA $ is allotted is every parent's business. She feels like she is entitled to the FA, so she specifically does not disclose the gifts from her parents in the forms. I think that's pretty common - for teachers and non-teachers alike.


No it’s not. And if you feel so strongly that it is, march into the financial aid office and tell them how you feel.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 10:39     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.

Maybe the school determined that with the amount her parents could afford to assist, she still qualified for FA. You don’t know what her financial situation is. Mind your own business.


I mean, it is my business if I pay tuition to the school and make annual donations to the annual fund. How the FA $ is allotted is every parent's business. She feels like she is entitled to the FA, so she specifically does not disclose the gifts from her parents in the forms. I think that's pretty common - for teachers and non-teachers alike.
+1
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 10:37     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.

Maybe the school determined that with the amount her parents could afford to assist, she still qualified for FA. You don’t know what her financial situation is. Mind your own business.


I mean, it is my business if I pay tuition to the school and make annual donations to the annual fund. How the FA $ is allotted is every parent's business. She feels like she is entitled to the FA, so she specifically does not disclose the gifts from her parents in the forms. I think that's pretty common - for teachers and non-teachers alike.

Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 09:22     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When a school indicates “x%” receive financial aid, is that including the employees kids? And how needy are private school teachers? I see a lot of them have expensive college educations themselves.


So now you are mad that your children's teachers have fancy degrees but... Chose to teach at your school...??


This, would you prefer they be Phoenixes?
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 09:21     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:When a school indicates “x%” receive financial aid, is that including the employees kids? And how needy are private school teachers? I see a lot of them have expensive college educations themselves.


If they don't have a rich spouse or rich parents helping, none could ever afford to send their kids to the schools that they teach at absent massive financial aid.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 09:19     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:When a school indicates “x%” receive financial aid, is that including the employees kids? And how needy are private school teachers? I see a lot of them have expensive college educations themselves.


So now you are mad that your children's teachers have fancy degrees but... Chose to teach at your school...??
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 09:16     Subject: Re:How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
It I becoming much more common as it gets harder and harder to hire and keep teachers.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 09:16     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.

Maybe the school determined that with the amount her parents could afford to assist, she still qualified for FA. You don’t know what her financial situation is. Mind your own business.


+100
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 09:08     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
When a school indicates “x%” receive financial aid, is that including the employees kids? And how needy are private school teachers? I see a lot of them have expensive college educations themselves.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 08:46     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote: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.

Maybe the school determined that with the amount her parents could afford to assist, she still qualified for FA. You don’t know what her financial situation is. Mind your own business.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 08:40     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Norwood gave 50% remission to staff children at one point. Not sure what they do today.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 08:40     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote: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.


…? What? You’re mad that someone who can’t afford the tuition on their own gets family help in addition to qualifying for FA? What an absolutely bizarre take.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 08:38     Subject: How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote:This has been brought up on this board many times. I recommend using the search feature.
I imagine it has been asked over the past two decades. It’s helpful to know what’s going on today.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2023 08:37     Subject: Re:How much free tuition do private school teachers/staff kids get?
Anonymous wrote: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[/quote]

STA give teachers' children free tuition today.