Posted on 02/28/2006 6:15:27 PM PST by george76
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.
Sorry, had to fix it fer ya.
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