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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:STA does this all the time. One way they do it is the Skip Grant program.

As an STa parent I’m disgusted. Lack of transparency is appalling. Does not make it feel like it’s a school where true brotherhood exists but rather where preferential treatment and lies abound. How long has this been the practice? During the pandemic some families were given aid while others where a parent lost his/her job were not. Really Eye opening and sad to see how the school treated families so unequally and callously.

This is not at all what the Skip Grant Program is or how it works. You can have whatever opinions you want to have about financial aid at private schools and at St. Albans in particular. But it’s simply wrong to suggest that the Skip Grant program is some sort of racket to give aid to undeserving families. SGP isn’t even about financial aid. It’s about admissions and academic support once you’re admitted.

Skip grant program aside, STA and other privates are not transparent and fair about financial aid. It is indeed as the OP suggests a farce. Not based on need per se but at the whims of the admissions office and their cause du jour. Bottom line it weakens the school and the trust of the student/parent body. The way the initial pandemic layoffs were handles was disgisting.

How were they handled?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:STA does this all the time. One way they do it is the Skip Grant program.

As an STa parent I’m disgusted. Lack of transparency is appalling. Does not make it feel like it’s a school where true brotherhood exists but rather where preferential treatment and lies abound. How long has this been the practice? During the pandemic some families were given aid while others where a parent lost his/her job were not. Really Eye opening and sad to see how the school treated families so unequally and callously.

This is not at all what the Skip Grant Program is or how it works. You can have whatever opinions you want to have about financial aid at private schools and at St. Albans in particular. But it’s simply wrong to suggest that the Skip Grant program is some sort of racket to give aid to undeserving families. SGP isn’t even about financial aid. It’s about admissions and academic support once you’re admitted.

Skip grant program aside, STA and other privates are not transparent and fair about financial aid. It is indeed as the OP suggests a farce. Not based on need per se but at the whims of the admissions office and their cause du jour. Bottom line it weakens the school and the trust of the student/parent body. The way the initial pandemic layoffs were handles was disgisting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:STA does this all the time. One way they do it is the Skip Grant program.

As an STa parent I’m disgusted. Lack of transparency is appalling. Does not make it feel like it’s a school where true brotherhood exists but rather where preferential treatment and lies abound. How long has this been the practice? During the pandemic some families were given aid while others where a parent lost his/her job were not. Really Eye opening and sad to see how the school treated families so unequally and callously.

This is not at all what the Skip Grant Program is or how it works. You can have whatever opinions you want to have about financial aid at private schools and at St. Albans in particular. But it’s simply wrong to suggest that the Skip Grant program is some sort of racket to give aid to undeserving families. SGP isn’t even about financial aid. It’s about admissions and academic support once you’re admitted.

OP— since you already know everything about this family’s finances, why don’t you just ask them how they got aid? It seems you’re making the same mistake as you did before— you didn’t ask for financial aid, so you had no chance of getting it, and now you’re not asking your friends how they are getting the aid, so once again you have no chance if getting it. Just ask them. There might be a totally legal way of getting 50% aid yourself, but you won’t know without asking.

Anonymous wrote:Why do people feel entitled to get any financial aid to go to a private school? It’s a luxury. Nobody gives financial aid to pay for other luxuries like a fancy car or a country club.

If you feel your kid will not be safe at the local public, then private school is a necessity
Betsy De Vos advocated private, even though she was supposed to administer public schools for the nation.
Only 10% of kids attend private school. Most would if they were able to financially afford it. At the same time there are very few areas were the kids live close to a private school

Anonymous wrote:STA does this all the time. One way they do it is the Skip Grant program.

As an STa parent I’m disgusted. Lack of transparency is appalling. Does not make it feel like it’s a school where true brotherhood exists but rather where preferential treatment and lies abound. How long has this been the practice? During the pandemic some families were given aid while others where a parent lost his/her job were not. Really Eye opening and sad to see how the school treated families so unequally and callously.