Anonymous
09/08/2014 20:32
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Prof here (married to another prof). Kids at a progressive private k-8.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 20:32
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most professors can't afford elite private schools in this area unless they come from family money or they have a spouse who makes much more
Depends what subject they teach and where they teach. Tenured profs in general are overpaid these days, considering they get summers off. And law school profs do extremely well. These are some of the sweetest gigs going. Plus, many schools pay full tuition or partial tuition to profs' kids wherever they go to college. Anyone who is not a tenured prof at a good school is...a sucker missing out on these perks and near-complete job security. No wonder no one retires!
hilarious. A few academic stars are overpaid; the rest work for decent but not overpaid salaries (50-100). And there is no summer off - you might not be teaching, but you are writing, researching, catching up on administrative duties, directing graduate students, and prepping classes for the fall. Every single tenured professor I know works at least 50 hour weeks (maybe it goes to 40 some weeks in the summer), and I am not at a high pressure school. At a RI school, 60-70 hour weeks, 50 in the summer would be the norm. Seriously, 10-12 hour days are the just a matter of course at many points in the semester. There is a lot of work to do! I can't work on weekends anymore because of kids (and you can't just take a weekend off and do your job with any semblance of well), so I work till 2 am. Professors don't retire because they have worked like this for years and so work is their identity.
Your kids can get free tuition at the school you teach at and, IF your school is in certain tuition consortiums, they can get free tuition at another school but only IF someone from that school comes to your school. The schools in the consortium with ours are pretty third tier - just a couple I'd be excited to send my kids to but I'd only be able o if someone at the good school wants to come to my little second tier school (i.e. not likely). The option of a free college tuition at a crappy university (mine) is a nice fall back, but I'm still saving for college.
Well, I guess I'm a slacker, but I view my tenured professorship as an extraordinarily well paid and secure part-time job. Honestly, if you are working 60-70 hours/week post tenure that's because you're nuts. I do work a lot -- but mostly b/c I do a lot of "extracurricular," non-university-based work that I took on voluntarily. No one makes me do it -- I do it b/c I like it.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 15:57
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Faculty brat here. I went to GDS.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 15:55
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most professors can't afford elite private schools in this area unless they come from family money or they have a spouse who makes much more
Depends what subject they teach and where they teach. Tenured profs in general are overpaid these days, considering they get summers off. And law school profs do extremely well. These are some of the sweetest gigs going. Plus, many schools pay full tuition or partial tuition to profs' kids wherever they go to college. Anyone who is not a tenured prof at a good school is...a sucker missing out on these perks and near-complete job security. No wonder no one retires!
my dad was a college professor. We never saw him. He even went to the office on Thanksgiving morning. Weekdays he'd come home, eat dinner, and go back to the office till 10pm. Weekends he was at the office every day. We'd go on vacation to see my gandparents, and he'd hole himself up in the office three or four hours a day working. Summer he took 6-8 week research trips to rare book collections. We only got free tuition at his university and then only till we were 25. And we were poor compared to my friends.
I can't imagine things are so different now than they were 20 years ago.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 15:52
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Yes and that doesn't usually include private h.s. tuition, it might be for college if the college has that benefit.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 15:47
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most professors can't afford elite private schools in this area unless they come from family money or they have a spouse who makes much more
Depends what subject they teach and where they teach. Tenured profs in general are overpaid these days, considering they get summers off. And law school profs do extremely well. These are some of the sweetest gigs going. Plus, many schools pay full tuition or partial tuition to profs' kids wherever they go to college. Anyone who is not a tenured prof at a good school is...a sucker missing out on these perks and near-complete job security. No wonder no one retires!
hilarious. A few academic stars are overpaid; the rest work for decent but not overpaid salaries (50-100). And there is no summer off - you might not be teaching, but you are writing, researching, catching up on administrative duties, directing graduate students, and prepping classes for the fall. Every single tenured professor I know works at least 50 hour weeks (maybe it goes to 40 some weeks in the summer), and I am not at a high pressure school. At a RI school, 60-70 hour weeks, 50 in the summer would be the norm. Seriously, 10-12 hour days are the just a matter of course at many points in the semester. There is a lot of work to do! I can't work on weekends anymore because of kids (and you can't just take a weekend off and do your job with any semblance of well), so I work till 2 am. Professors don't retire because they have worked like this for years and so work is their identity.
Your kids can get free tuition at the school you teach at and, IF your school is in certain tuition consortiums, they can get free tuition at another school but only IF someone from that school comes to your school. The schools in the consortium with ours are pretty third tier - just a couple I'd be excited to send my kids to but I'd only be able o if someone at the good school wants to come to my little second tier school (i.e. not likely). The option of a free college tuition at a crappy university (mine) is a nice fall back, but I'm still saving for college.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 15:26
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Anonymous wrote:Most professors can't afford elite private schools in this area unless they come from family money or they have a spouse who makes much more
Depends what subject they teach and where they teach. Tenured profs in general are overpaid these days, considering they get summers off. And law school profs do extremely well. These are some of the sweetest gigs going. Plus, many schools pay full tuition or partial tuition to profs' kids wherever they go to college. Anyone who is not a tenured prof at a good school is...a sucker missing out on these perks and near-complete job security. No wonder no one retires!
Anonymous
09/08/2014 14:54
Subject: Re:Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Anonymous wrote:This is silly and all speculative. If they choose to spend the cash on independent institutions, professors send their kids to schools where they were accepted. It's not like they have any substantive advantage over non professor parents.
I've actually found it an advantage at non-big three schools (I have never applied to big three schools so don't know about those). We applied two weeks late late to one and still got in immediately despite others who applied on time being waitlisted. The schools like that college professors value their teaching philosophy and practices enough to send their kids there - I think it feels like a validation. Maybe it was just that I was able to choose schools that were good fits for our family and articulate how they were good fits. But, still, I suspect the job helped.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 14:47
Subject: Re:Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Anonymous wrote:not sure if I posted this before. Professor here (liberal arts). My kids went to Washington Waldorf but we left for commute reasons. Now they are at a public Montessori. Professors I know care much more about their kids loving school and loving learning than about early academics. But most can't afford progressive schools so work within the public school system to counter things like excessive homework and accelerated academics.
I see I did post a page or so back (in March before we lucked into a charter when we were still signed up for a private Montessori). Honestly, I doubt we would have been able to afford private for long.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 14:42
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Most professors can't afford elite private schools in this area unless they come from family money or they have a spouse who makes much more
Anonymous
09/08/2014 14:26
Subject: Re:Where do Professors Send Their Children?
not sure if I posted this before. Professor here (liberal arts). My kids went to Washington Waldorf but we left for commute reasons. Now they are at a public Montessori. Professors I know care much more about their kids loving school and loving learning than about early academics. But most can't afford progressive schools so work within the public school system to counter things like excessive homework and accelerated academics.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 14:13
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
DH is a professor and we send our kids to Holton.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 12:59
Subject: Re:Where do Professors Send Their Children?
I'm a professor' kid. I went to public schools in nova.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 12:57
Subject: Where do Professors Send Their Children?
Anonymous wrote:I'm a religious studies professor. Planning to send my kid to Waldorf.
That's funny.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 12:01
Subject: Re:Where do Professors Send Their Children?
This is silly and all speculative. If they choose to spend the cash on independent institutions, professors send their kids to schools where they were accepted. It's not like they have any substantive advantage over non professor parents.