Anonymous wrote:My DC's school provides 50% tuition remission for faculty.

The tuition per year is over 30K and I am frankly tired of hearing how there isn't enough money in the budget. I wish the school would re-examine the faculty tuition remission plan to help with the shortfalls.

+1, and would add annual hefty increases for faculty and staff as well. We haven't had a raise in 3 years, and it irks me that they can't tighten their belts as well.

My DC's school provides 50% tuition remission for faculty.

The tuition per year is over 30K and I am frankly tired of hearing how there isn't enough money in the budget. I wish the school would re-examine the faculty tuition remission plan to help with the shortfalls.

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Anonymous wrote:At a reception for admitted families, I was surprised by how many faculty and staff spoke about their children attending the school. At the reception itself, several staff members were also celebrating the admittance of their child or children, which is fantastic. But, it seemed like a whoooole lot of staff!
I have to imagine that staff are given full tuition remission or tuition benefits.
Is anyone familiar with this practice? How common is it in private schools in the area? Beyond creating massive employee loyalty and satisfaction, what are the other benefits to the school as a whole?

Obnoxious. Really. Get a life.

Tuition remission is a huge incentive for great teachers to stay at a school. It also allows teachers to better serve your kids as they have a sense of perspective. Unlike you.

Wow. Someone had too much wine with dinner. I didn't get the sense that OP doesn't have a sense of perspective. You sound angry.

Anonymous wrote:I do think it’s out of hand. At one of DCs school half the class was staff/teacher kids. The teacher kids are very frequently favored and have behavior problems. I doubt some of them would have been admitted if they weren’t staff/teacher kids. The tuition remission varies at each school and some schools give a “favored” FA package to staff/teachers verses, or in addition to, tuition remission. What irks me is that I don’t think it attracts the best teachers because so many of the teachers at my DCs school leave after the child graduates or moves on. It just sends a message that they are only there to receive tuition remission and not to teach. I don’t know the answer, but I do think that not all staff/teacher kids should be admitted. There is a whole different set of rules that apply to staff/teacher kids and it gets old watching it.

It is also true that many other kids would not be admitted if their parents were not wealthy. Admissions is complicated, and far from being a pure meritocracy. Your school would have a tough time attracting and retaining faculty if there was little chance of them sending their kids to the school ( as long as the kid is capable of succeeding at the school).

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Anonymous wrote:At a reception for admitted families, I was surprised by how many faculty and staff spoke about their children attending the school. At the reception itself, several staff members were also celebrating the admittance of their child or children, which is fantastic. But, it seemed like a whoooole lot of staff!
I have to imagine that staff are given full tuition remission or tuition benefits.
Is anyone familiar with this practice? How common is it in private schools in the area? Beyond creating massive employee loyalty and satisfaction, what are the other benefits to the school as a whole?

Obnoxious. Really. Get a life.

Tuition remission is a huge incentive for great teachers to stay at a school. It also allows teachers to better serve your kids as they have a sense of perspective. Unlike you.

No, it creates enormous conflicts of interest if you are in a small private and your teacher's child is in the same grade (and, yes, daddy or partner is a big law firm person - no diveristy ++ issues at this school). I questioned it at the time and looking back, it was just plain wrong. All the other teachers tiptoed around the teachers kids' (there were two that went through the school). The kids were disturbed, eating disorders and snobby attitudes because they knew the faculty or admin couldn't touch them. and then daddy became chair of the board, so now we have a three-way conflict. Teacher, who was problematic, couldn't be touched. Children couldn't be touched. Everything in that grade just shut down. I think its a wrong practice and that most schools that still do allow it are revisiting the issue via exchange program with other schools. It's healthlier, too, for the child of a faculty member to make their own way in the world, not having mommy or daddy 20 feet away all the time. My college offers tuition remission/help for offspring at other colleges and universities - they work out deals so their kids don't have to be on the same campus as mom or dad plus get oet to the college that best suits them.

We can't have our children mingling with the staff!

Yes, how dare those teacher think their kids deserve the same education as mine... the nerve!

Anonymous wrote:At a reception for admitted families, I was surprised by how many faculty and staff spoke about their children attending the school. At the reception itself, several staff members were also celebrating the admittance of their child or children, which is fantastic. But, it seemed like a whoooole lot of staff!
I have to imagine that staff are given full tuition remission or tuition benefits.
Is anyone familiar with this practice? How common is it in private schools in the area? Beyond creating massive employee loyalty and satisfaction, what are the other benefits to the school as a whole?

Obnoxious. Really. Get a life.

Tuition remission is a huge incentive for great teachers to stay at a school. It also allows teachers to better serve your kids as they have a sense of perspective. Unlike you.

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Beyond creating massive employee loyalty and satisfaction, what are the other benefits to the school as a whole?

Economic diversity within the student body?

You may not think that's a benefit, though.

Umm, most of the faculty kids I know have one parent who is either a lawyer at a major law firm, in investment banking, or otherwise in finance. That is how the other spouse affords easily to be a teacher in a private school. If diversity is what you are looking for, why not just give financial aid equally across the board and see who shows up for class?

That's certainly not the case at our school. I'm sure it varies from place to place. There may be more teachers like that at the primary/elementary level. Thinking of the Upper School faculty at our school, the "other spouse" often seems to work in government, academia, non-profit world -- the teacher is either an equal financial partner or even the primary breadwinner.

Most of the teachers I know who are equal partners or primary breadwinners send their kids to public. They can't afford the schools they teach in.

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Anonymous wrote:Employee children aren't all poor! I teach at my kids big 3 bc I want to, most definitely not bc I have too.

But I won't lie sometimes I feel awkward rolling up in my luxury SUV.

As you should. Nice values to teach your students.

Hola, Concord Hill Mom. Oops I mean teacher mom..

Anonymous wrote:Employee children aren't all poor! I teach at my kids big 3 bc I want to, most definitely not bc I have too.

But I won't lie sometimes I feel awkward rolling up in my luxury SUV.

As you should. Nice values to teach your students.

And this bothers you, OP, because. . . why?

Love having the teacher's kids in my son's school. There are quite a few, but I think it is a great perk for an otherwise low paying teaching job. The teachers are stellar, so I want them to stay. So far, I haven't seen any behavioral issues with the staff kids. I also love that even the custodial and support staff get the same perk for their kids.

Anonymous wrote:Employee children aren't all poor! I teach at my kids big 3 bc I want to, most definitely not bc I have too.

But I won't lie sometimes I feel awkward rolling up in my luxury SUV.

Uh huh. I'm sure the "Big 3" is clamoring to get teachers who don't know how to use an apostrophe, or knows the difference between "to" and "too".

But nice trolling.