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Posted on 02/28/2006 6:15:27 PM PST by george76
Tuition and fees at some New York City private high schools will cost more than $30,000 for the school year ...
New York already boasts the highest private school tuitions in the country, but prices at some schools will now surpass even the cost of sending a child to Harvard...
Riverdale Country School, located on a leafy oasis in the Bronx, will charge $31,200 for tuition, lunch, and books for grades six through 12.
Bus service from Manhattan costs an additional couple of thousand dollars.
Parents are looking to spend about $400,000 before their children even get to college.
Undergraduate tuition at Harvard this year is $28,752,plus room and board.
"We're so out of whack that we think that it's okay to pay more for Riverdale than for Harvard - people around the country are laughing at us,"...
about 70% to 75% of a school's budget goes toward funding faculty salaries and benefits.
"The thing that kills schools, like everybody else in the world right now, is medical costs. You see double digit increases...for medical insurance," ...
Despite the hefty price tag, tuition only covers about 85% of a school's expenses.
Many schools still rely on annual fundraising campaigns to cover the remaining costs...
"I think a lot of parents at a lot of schools will not be as generous in their additional giving as they been in the past," ...
The city's public schools say they spend about $13,000 a student a year, though some city officials say that understates the public funding for each student, which by some estimates reaches as much as $18,000.
The city's Catholic high schools get by on about $6,000 a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Rugrats are expensive. It's better to rent than buy...
the wife and I are looking at something like $5000 a year when we send our kids to privates schools.
Of course, that is if we had kids right now, which we don't.
So college will be cheaper ping?
Yet another of the 678,831 reasons why I will never live in New York again. The liberals there are reaping exactly what they sow. Pretty soon, if it isn't this way already, the only people left living in NY will be the extremely rich, and the extremely poor. Liberalism at its finest.
the people who send their kids fo these schools - have the cash. its petty cash for most of them.
Wow, can you imagine spending that kind of money on your kid and he becomes the next Taliban Johnny? I'd rather take the cash and invest it in a nice retirement house on the lake than risk relying on a 30 year-old Shakespeare-quoting french fry chef.
You mean every parent doesn't have to buy the school a new gym, like my parents were required to for me to get in?
here's hoping so!
All of these liberals areas will only have the billionaires and their servants.
The rest of us will leave.
Money is no object for the I-bankers in NYC. I know a Goldman parent with three kids in Pre-K right now. For the three of them its $45,000 for Pre-k.
That's for just under 3 hours of school a day.
That pet rock is looking very reasonable.
In truth, some of these schools are very, very good with high academic standards and worth every penny. Some of them are nothing more than holding pens for the imbecile children of over-privileged imbecile parents.
The truth of the matter is, it's still possible to get a first rate public education in NYC if a kid is highly motivated.
but the truth is, NYC has lots of middle and upper middle class jobs. unions and government workers are well paid, and these very wealthy people buy alot of services - and emplyment in services is the main engine of economic development in the US labor market.
standing between a wealthy person and something they want - their kids private educations, their Bentley dealers, high end restaurants - is a good way to earn money.
Three hours for $45,000. Wow.
Go with the Chia Pet--there's more nurturing involved and, thus, a tighter bond.
Dead on.
I live in CA and it runs $6K/yr for each kid. Maybe one day, before my kids are in college, vouchers will be approved.
My daughter will be graduating from Catholic shool (grades 1-8) this year (tuition avg around 3,000-3,500 per year) High school is 9,000 next year at the Catholic High School that she was accepted in. Let me just say that it was worth EVERY PENNY and I look foward to spending 36,000 for High school. Serveral weeks ago, we were driving to dance and the Effing John Kerry was on the radio speaking about Martin Luther King (day) and my daughter turned to me and said this guy on the radio sounds very "royal" but that he has very bad english.... LOL I told her that was JK the guy who wanted to be president.
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