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Anonymous wrote:For all the parents who don't earn enough to comfortably send their children to private school and the grandparents are paying for private school - do you want to do the same for your future grandchildren? What plan do you have in place (if any) to pay for future grandchildren's private schooling?

If you don't think you'll pay for future grandchildren's private schooling, do you feel guilty that you won't be able to give your own grandchildren this benefit?

It would be more of a struggle to pay for private on our income, but we could do it. We don't because my family has made education a priority for three generations and invested with that as a goal.

We do not always send to expensive privates, but we have. Right now we have one in a 30k private and one in a 12k private. We still try to keep our educational costs down, being mindful of quality.

We plan to pay for grandchildren's educations, but it will be a conversation about quality and planning. We will use 529s for college and savings accounts for k-12.

Anonymous wrote:HHI 170 sending 3 to private.

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Anonymous wrote:For all the parents who don't earn enough to comfortably send their children to private school and the grandparents are paying for private school - do you want to do the same for your future grandchildren? What plan do you have in place (if any) to pay for future grandchildren's private schooling?

If you don't think you'll pay for future grandchildren's private schooling, do you feel guilty that you won't be able to give your own grandchildren this benefit?

It would be more of a struggle to pay for private on our income, but we could do it. We don't because my family has made education a priority for three generations and invested with that as a goal.

We do not always send to expensive privates, but we have. Right now we have one in a 30k private and one in a 12k private. We still try to keep our educational costs down, being mindful of quality.

We plan to pay for grandchildren's educations, but it will be a conversation about quality and planning. We will use 529s for college and savings accounts for k-12.

Anonymous wrote:There are 3-6k parochial schools out there. Especially in south and Midwest. You don't have to live in th most expensive place AND send to private

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Anonymous wrote:For all the parents who don't earn enough to comfortably send their children to private school and the grandparents are paying for private school - do you want to do the same for your future grandchildren? What plan do you have in place (if any) to pay for future grandchildren's private schooling?

If you don't think you'll pay for future grandchildren's private schooling, do you feel guilty that you won't be able to give your own grandchildren this benefit?

It would be more of a struggle to pay for private on our income, but we could do it. We don't because my family has made education a priority for three generations and invested with that as a goal.

We do not always send to expensive privates, but we have. Right now we have one in a 30k private and one in a 12k private. We still try to keep our educational costs down, being mindful of quality.

We plan to pay for grandchildren's educations, but it will be a conversation about quality and planning. We will use 529s for college and savings accounts for k-12.

Anonymous wrote:For all the parents who don't earn enough to comfortably send their children to private school and the grandparents are paying for private school - do you want to do the same for your future grandchildren? What plan do you have in place (if any) to pay for future grandchildren's private schooling?

If you don't think you'll pay for future grandchildren's private schooling, do you feel guilty that you won't be able to give your own grandchildren this benefit?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:If you make that much and can’t afford private you have bigger issues.

How do you figure?

Like I said, my alma mater is $28k per year...for 1 student. I have a few kids, so it would be very costly to send them to private school K through 12 AND have money saved for college.

I see that some people are going private K-8 and then bailing and going public for high school. I get it: catholic grade school is relatively affordable, but high school isn't. I wouldn't want to tear my kid away from their friends and send them to public for high school.

I'm one of the PP whose kids will switch to public for high school. We make $360K.

Many, many kids from our K-8 go to public for high school, and of the ones who don't, they're spread across the various Diocesan and independent Catholic schools. It's not like there's one school that a majority of the kids matriculate to. We're in NoVA, so maybe things are different for ADW schools.

I can see one of our kids being strongly in favor of going to Catholic high school for religious reasons, so we're willing to consider it for her but we can't easily afford to pay for private high school and save for college for 4 kids, two of whom are twins. The FCPS high school we're zoned for is just as good if not better than PVI, Ireton, etc, so it wouldn't be worth it just for academics. (K-8 is a different story; it's completely worth it to us for grade school and middle.)

In MoCo, there are definitely preferred catholic high schools that kids transition to from certain parish schools. It’s unusual for kids to switch to public for HS in moco.

PVI and Ireton never had stellar reputations for academics.

FWIW, my catholic HS was more challenging than college; college was a breeze for me compared to my catholic high school. Heck, law school was less stressful for me than my catholic high school.

Anonymous wrote:For all the parents who don't earn enough to comfortably send their children to private school and the grandparents are paying for private school - do you want to do the same for your future grandchildren? What plan do you have in place (if any) to pay for future grandchildren's private schooling?

If you don't think you'll pay for future grandchildren's private schooling, do you feel guilty that you won't be able to give your own grandchildren this benefit?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you make that much and can’t afford private you have bigger issues.

How do you figure?

Like I said, my alma mater is $28k per year...for 1 student. I have a few kids, so it would be very costly to send them to private school K through 12 AND have money saved for college.

I see that some people are going private K-8 and then bailing and going public for high school. I get it: catholic grade school is relatively affordable, but high school isn't. I wouldn't want to tear my kid away from their friends and send them to public for high school.

I'm one of the PP whose kids will switch to public for high school. We make $360K.

Many, many kids from our K-8 go to public for high school, and of the ones who don't, they're spread across the various Diocesan and independent Catholic schools. It's not like there's one school that a majority of the kids matriculate to. We're in NoVA, so maybe things are different for ADW schools.

I can see one of our kids being strongly in favor of going to Catholic high school for religious reasons, so we're willing to consider it for her but we can't easily afford to pay for private high school and save for college for 4 kids, two of whom are twins. The FCPS high school we're zoned for is just as good if not better than PVI, Ireton, etc, so it wouldn't be worth it just for academics. (K-8 is a different story; it's completely worth it to us for grade school and middle.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you make that much and can’t afford private you have bigger issues.

How do you figure?

Like I said, my alma mater is $28k per year...for 1 student. I have a few kids, so it would be very costly to send them to private school K through 12 AND have money saved for college.

I see that some people are going private K-8 and then bailing and going public for high school. I get it: catholic grade school is relatively affordable, but high school isn't. I wouldn't want to tear my kid away from their friends and send them to public for high school.