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Anonymous wrote:6.5% - Wow. With all the fundraising, philanthropy and endowment.

It is mostly driven by wage inflation and the need to attract and retain faculty. There is a major dearth of teachers in the country, so schools, and particularly private schools, have to shell out more. So the choice as parents who chose private schools is to put up or step out.

Increase over inflation is nominal if not negative

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Anonymous wrote:That’s a full $10K more than we pay for K and will pay for 1st grade next year at a well-regarded K-8. Does Sidwell truly provide $10K more in value?

It’s a full 50k more than we paid at a well-regarded k-2.

I have no doubt it does provide the value. I wish it were cheaper but I’ve never laid awake at night wondering if I’m wasting my $$$. I would do at -$10k in most schools that are not NCS, STA, SFS. Maybe GDS

Can you tell me what the value is? Like can you quantify what makes Sidwell worth 10, 20, 30, 40, 50k more than other schools? I would be curious to know.

Name brand. You can go anywhere in the country, and many places around the world, and the name Sidwell is known. Not true for most of these other schools.

No one gives a *&%$ in the real world

Anonymous wrote:6.5% - Wow. With all the fundraising, philanthropy and endowment.

It is mostly driven by wage inflation and the need to attract and retain faculty. There is a major dearth of teachers in the country, so schools, and particularly private schools, have to shell out more. So the choice as parents who chose private schools is to put up or step out.

Anonymous wrote:So, three quarters of a million dollars before you even get to college. It sure will suck to find out the neighbor’s kid went to MCPS for free and is going to the same college as your kid.

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Just take a gander over to the MCPS board and I think you'll see why people are willing to pay this much. Top threads are about drug overdoses in the bathrooms, petition to bring back SROs and lockdowns because of all the violence, complaints about the lousy curriculum and benchmark, poor test scores, etc. Sure, some kids do fine despite that, but I think most parents would rather avoid all that if they have the means to do so.

Oh man, we spend so much on coke and social exclusion at our Big 3 I almost wanna brag about it.

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Anonymous wrote:So, three quarters of a million dollars before you even get to college. It sure will suck to find out the neighbor’s kid went to MCPS for free and is going to the same college as your kid.

They'll just say "You don't get it!"

You don’t get it. The vibe it private school is completely different you can’t match it and you don’t get it unless you have experienced it

This is 100% true. No public school can provide the atmosphere of bullying and social exclusion that a private school can.

Add obnoxious entitlement and drug use.

DEI budget isn’t free y’all.

Anonymous wrote:you have to be a serious chump to spend 50k on preschool.

Well, there’s a sucker born every minute, as they say.

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Anonymous wrote:So, three quarters of a million dollars before you even get to college. It sure will suck to find out the neighbor’s kid went to MCPS for free and is going to the same college as your kid.

They'll just say "You don't get it!"

You don’t get it. The vibe it private school is completely different you can’t match it and you don’t get it unless you have experienced it

This is 100% true. No public school can provide the atmosphere of bullying and social exclusion that a private school can.

I visited Sidwell’s lower school this fall and was far from impressed. The facilities are not updated. Class sizes were larger than class sizes at many other independent schools, there wasn’t a consistent curriculum used across grades, and student learning wasn’t super evident on the walls. It seems the name continues to carry them.

I can’t tell if PP is faux-obnoxious or real

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Anonymous wrote:So, three quarters of a million dollars before you even get to college. It sure will suck to find out the neighbor’s kid went to MCPS for free and is going to the same college as your kid.

They'll just say "You don't get it!"

You don’t get it. The vibe it private school is completely different you can’t match it and you don’t get it unless you have experienced it

You’re paying for exclusive access to peers whose parents are also able to spend well over $500k on educating a child before they even get to college.

I’m gonna be honest— there are more efficient ways to do that, it’s weird to make Sidwell your middleman on this. You’d think rich people would have come up with a smarter way to ensure their kids know the correct other rich kids, but I guess not.

Anonymous wrote:So, three quarters of a million dollars before you even get to college. It sure will suck to find out the neighbor’s kid went to MCPS for free and is going to the same college as your kid.

They'll just say "You don't get it!"

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Anonymous wrote:That’s a full $10K more than we pay for K and will pay for 1st grade next year at a well-regarded K-8. Does Sidwell truly provide $10K more in value?

It’s a full 50k more than we paid at a well-regarded k-2.

I have no doubt it does provide the value. I wish it were cheaper but I’ve never laid awake at night wondering if I’m wasting my $$$. I would do at -$10k in most schools that are not NCS, STA, SFS. Maybe GDS

Can you tell me what the value is? Like can you quantify what makes Sidwell worth 10, 20, 30, 40, 50k more than other schools? I would be curious to know.

Name brand. You can go anywhere in the country, and many places around the world, and the name Sidwell is known. Not true for most of these other schools.

No adults are impressed by what private school you went to. It does mark you as coming from significant wealth but that’s about it.

+1. Same with the kids from Exeter, Andover, Choate, Hotchkiss, etc. My first thought is - rich parents.