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Anonymous wrote:-not bringing myself to invest but just saving up cash
-feeling uncomfortable with unusually large (for me) amounts of money

Also lack of earning potential and laziness
Maybe also the hidden appeal of being poor. It’s much simpler and there are ways to get free things and free money

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Anonymous wrote:Sending your kid to private school k-12 & then making that kid take out loans for college

+1 and I’ll add —— sending your kids to a $50K/year private school only to watch similar kids who go to public schools get into the same high tier colleges that your kid got into.

If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. It’s not about “getting into college.” It’s about college preparation, being able to participate in whichever sports you want in 9th grade, well-behaved student body and so many other things.

Hey believe what you want to believe to justify all that money you are paying to a private school while also paying property taxes and subsidizing public school students. Confirmation bias at its best.

If private schools prepare their students for college so well, why do ALL of my friends who send their kids to private schools also pay for tutors and test prep outside of their school. The reality is public schools prepare their students for college just as much as private schools do and public school parents also pay for tutors and test prep. Public school kids can participate in any sport they want in 9th grade as well (not sure where you are coming from on this). A well-behaved student body --- paahleeeze lol -- you are kidding yourself. Private schools have drug and discipline problems just as bad as public schools. In fact, the drug problem is worse since these kids have access to money.

That's super weird. I know of no one who is paying for tutors. Maybe test prep, but lets get real, I don't want my school prepping for the SAT, that's not really education and its what publics already do teaching to the SOLs.

Sure, if you don't have an athletic kid but want them to participate in a "regular" sport (rather than frisbee or 'running in circles' sports), public schools are terrible. Travel players take all teams spots and there are not varsity or intramurals offered because of insufficient field space (see 3000 students). And rec sports mostly stop at 8th around here.

Blah, Blah, Blah. Whatever you need to think to justify that huge private school tuition you pay. You must not live in a good school district. Moving would be cheaper than paying for private school. Oh and by the way, those private school athletes play club sports from early age as well so they can make the team as well.

Curious where you suggest I move to? I actually did the math that with higher interest rates private high school is cheaper than moving to a place like McLean.

DP here - Springfield, Burke, Centreville, or Chantilly

Don’t pay for private high school - unless you are aiming for highly selective colleges AND your child is really going to be able to be competitive for those schools. Now is the time for honesty with yourself about your child. Do they excel at school at simple stuff like taking multiple choice tests? Are they self motivated ? No not like if you prompt them over and over and but as in they take out a planner and plan things out. And make sure to look at the colleges the students go to from the private schools you are considering. The bulk of students will go to run of the mill schools that even in a low rated public school students still get admitted to the same school.

The other reason for private high school - your local public high school is low rated.

My child went to a public high school and then went to a very selective private university. You don’t need private high school to do this. But don’t tell the parents that just spent $200K to send their kid to a private high school this. They get very defensive.