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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please define for me what salary puts someon in the 1% and what salary puts you in the 2%? I've always though of the 1% being millionaires and billionaires with numerous vacation homes, expensive cars, boats, fat portfolios and savings accounts. However, after reasoned this thread I'm beginning to wonder if the 1% actually represents a much lower threshold...

for the 1% nationally it's about $400K. in the DC area, about $550K. don;t know for 2% because most articles then go down to the 5% level.

the kind of lifestyle you are thinking about is the top 0.1%.

yes, we are going back to the era of Downton Abbey and the Robber Barons I guess.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please define for me what salary puts someon in the 1% and what salary puts you in the 2%? I've always though of the 1% being millionaires and billionaires with numerous vacation homes, expensive cars, boats, fat portfolios and savings accounts. However, after reasoned this thread I'm beginning to wonder if the 1% actually represents a much lower threshold...

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Anonymous wrote:Op. I agree it's frustrating but you could make it work if it was your priority. We are in the 1% but our mortgage is half yours and our house isn't even worth $1 million. We also only have 2 kids.

Very easy for you to say, as someone in the 1%.

Anonymous wrote:Op. I agree it's frustrating but you could make it work if it was your priority. We are in the 1% but our mortgage is half yours and our house isn't even worth $1 million. We also only have 2 kids.

Anonymous wrote:Where does the money go? I'm a public school teacher in a small district that parents love. We send our children to private school because I know our district does not provide adequate planning time or adequate training. What do our children get in an expensive private school? They get a ratio of 1:8. Their teachers have 2 or 3 prep blocks per day. Teachers in our children's school get training sessions for half day each week.

In my public middle school, I, and other teachers, get 3 prep periods per week and 25 - 30 students per class. Training? We get two PD days per year. As a language arts teacher, it's difficult for me to give authentic, helpful feedback on my students' writing pieces every week because I teach 105 students. At my children's school, the teachers have no more than 30 - 40 students for the entire year.

I see amazing skill, talent, and dedication among my colleagues. I know l'm just as talented and devoted. With class sizes that small, frequent training sessions, much smaller loads, and real prep time, how can we public school educators offer as much as the privates do?
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Anonymous wrote:School cost and salaries are especially high when you consider they are 9 month costs. Parents are paying for those other three months with camp tuitions, and teachers and administrators are only working 9 months for those salaries.

Anonymous wrote:Private schools are not making a profit - I have attended my head's meeting on the budget where he goes over all the expenses and then shows enrollment and then shows what tuition has to be. I have simplified it but basically I left realizing that it costs a lot to run a school. Health care, basic benefits, salaries, facility set costs, FA take up a majority of the revenue. I don't see schools having a choice unless they pay teachers way less and risk not having great teachers or drop FA altogether. I don't like either of these options so I pay the tuition.