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Anonymous wrote:These pro-public school parents will do anything to justify their poor decisions to expose their kids to the cut-throat (literally!!) environment of public schools. Just admit you were too selfish to sacrifice or make any effort to find a better place for your kid. I hope they are ok.

Sorry you can’t afford a nice neighborhood in the exurbs. We still have good schools.

Anonymous wrote:If private school tuition is 30k a year and you instead invest this money at 7% returns from age 5 through 18, you'll have over 600k by college age. If this 600k was invested another 12 years until 30 it would become almost $1.5M.

I know some people are rich enough to do both but if you can only choose one, what would it be? I think at the very least private school tuition should be cut and you give this money to your kid in young adulthood to help them with buying a house or something. I see so many people who aren't even rich sending kids to private and I just wonder why they do this when it would be way more impactful to their children's future to just invest the money to gift to them as adults.

Anonymous wrote:These pro-public school parents will do anything to justify their poor decisions to expose their kids to the cut-throat (literally!!) environment of public schools. Just admit you were too selfish to sacrifice or make any effort to find a better place for your kid. I hope they are ok.

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps middle class needs to be defined here.

The median HHI in Washington, DC is $110k. In theory, that is literally Middle Class.

My understanding is that at say a Big3 DMV private, that family would receive significant aid...maybe even 100%.

I think they also might be entitled to something at DMV Catholic schools...but maybe only in HS.

I just don't see how it's possible for true middle class parents to be paying all that much for private school unless they are too proud to ask for FA.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t have to put your kids in a public school to know that they are filled with violent students and underperforming teachers.

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps middle class needs to be defined here.

The median HHI in Washington, DC is $110k. In theory, that is literally Middle Class.

My understanding is that at say a Big3 DMV private, that family would receive significant aid...maybe even 100%.

I think they also might be entitled to something at DMV Catholic schools...but maybe only in HS.

I just don't see how it's possible for true middle class parents to be paying all that much for private school unless they are too proud to ask for FA.

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Anonymous wrote:These pro private school posters are simply not middle class. They just aren’t. The only true middle class people paying for private school are doing it for religious reasons which tend to be cheaper anyway, plus you can see the financial sacrifices they are making in their homes, vacations etc.

This ain’t rocket science.

I am one of these posters and sent my kids to Catholic schools with nothing beyond a 401K for savings and a one income family of $200K at the time. Of course our income got better as time went on (significantly actually) so we were lucky. But we took the risk and sacrifice and it was 100% worth it!!

Exactly. So when you were middle income and had no savings you made the choice for religious reasons. Most people know that Catholic schools aren’t rigorous academically and many are against again a lot of the Catholic teachings. I don’t want my kid going to a HS that expects her to attend the March For Life. Just no.

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Anonymous wrote:These pro private school posters are simply not middle class. They just aren’t. The only true middle class people paying for private school are doing it for religious reasons which tend to be cheaper anyway, plus you can see the financial sacrifices they are making in their homes, vacations etc.

This ain’t rocket science.

I am one of these posters and sent my kids to Catholic schools with nothing beyond a 401K for savings and a one income family of $200K at the time. Of course our income got better as time went on (significantly actually) so we were lucky. But we took the risk and sacrifice and it was 100% worth it!!

Exactly. So when you were middle income and had no savings you made the choice for religious reasons. Most people know that Catholic schools aren’t rigorous academically and many are against again a lot of the Catholic teachings. I don’t want my kid going to a HS that expects her to attend the March For Life. Just no.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are in college now and the kids who left for private didn’t have any better college outcomes than the kids who stayed. Bright kids are going to thrive anywhere.

You need to read the other millions of threads on this. Most of us don't send our kids to private for college outcomes. If that's your goal stay public! We send our kids private for whole child development, leadership development, social development etc. in addition to academic development - which is still better at private because of smaller more engaging classes.

I sent one of my kids for a year at TJ and on all those fronts mentioned above it was a disaster - he went back to his private school and my younger 3 never attended public.

Good for you, but nobody cares. The point of this thread was ROI for people who can’t easily afford private school

But actually somebody cares and that person chose to post just how much they cared on this forum. The real point is why do they care that much about someone else’s choices and decisions? Girl, bye….go ahead and pick up your copy of The Let Them Theory. If the ROI is not high enough to purchase it then borrow it from your local library…as a matter of fact, just read the back cover. It will change your life. I promise you.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are in college now and the kids who left for private didn’t have any better college outcomes than the kids who stayed. Bright kids are going to thrive anywhere.

You need to read the other millions of threads on this. Most of us don't send our kids to private for college outcomes. If that's your goal stay public! We send our kids private for whole child development, leadership development, social development etc. in addition to academic development - which is still better at private because of smaller more engaging classes.

I sent one of my kids for a year at TJ and on all those fronts mentioned above it was a disaster - he went back to his private school and my younger 3 never attended public.

Good for you, but nobody cares. The point of this thread was ROI for people who can’t easily afford private school

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Anonymous wrote:These pro private school posters are simply not middle class. They just aren’t. The only true middle class people paying for private school are doing it for religious reasons which tend to be cheaper anyway, plus you can see the financial sacrifices they are making in their homes, vacations etc.

This ain’t rocket science.

I am one of these posters and sent my kids to Catholic schools with nothing beyond a 401K for savings and a one income family of $200K at the time. Of course our income got better as time went on (significantly actually) so we were lucky. But we took the risk and sacrifice and it was 100% worth it!!

Anonymous wrote:And many private schools in this area aren’t 30k-they’re closer to 60k per year

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are in college now and the kids who left for private didn’t have any better college outcomes than the kids who stayed. Bright kids are going to thrive anywhere.

You need to read the other millions of threads on this. Most of us don't send our kids to private for college outcomes. If that's your goal stay public! We send our kids private for whole child development, leadership development, social development etc. in addition to academic development - which is still better at private because of smaller more engaging classes.

I sent one of my kids for a year at TJ and on all those fronts mentioned above it was a disaster - he went back to his private school and my younger 3 never attended public.

Good for you, but nobody cares. The point of this thread was ROI for people who can’t easily afford private school

DP

You must be thick. The point of that post is directly aligned with the topic. If college is your goal and you are middle class - stay public. The PP that this poster responded to (probably you) didn't understand why people would choose private school if college outcomes are the same - I think the post covers that. Clearly, your ISEE reading comprehension score would be too low for private school.

You’re thick- my question was why middle class people who can’t easily afford college would choose private over public. I know why parents choose private because I’ve heard them opine about it time and time again.