Posted on 02/28/2006 6:15:27 PM PST by george76
There are wonderful communities in which to raise a family and send your children to the local school.
Further, families with incomes in the many many millions don't see the cost of private schooling as exhorbitant.
It's all relative.
indeed, you walk around manhattan and see S Classes parked on the streets as if they were matchbox cars. nobody should worry that these people can't afford their kids tuition.
That's like saying a you have to be a millionaire to buy a car. If someone wants to buy a Bentley or a Rolls Royce, that's fine, but they shouldn't act like there are no cheaper cars on the market.
maybe maybe...
since I am still at least 6+ years away from it, the wife and I already have a fund set up for our kids education, at least through high school....college may be another thing.
We broke up because he had a cat. I'm severely allergic to cats. I told him ME or the CAT. You can guess which one he chose!!!
When vouchers are approved the tuition will equal the vouchers plus $6k. Remember, private schools are in business to make money. If there is a demographic of parents willing to write a check for a $6k education pre-voucher, then there is a market for a $6k education after vouchers.
And the schools no longer supply pencils, crayons, glue, 'add various other supplies'.
Then there are the costs for the school trips.
The fund raising falls on the parents to buy.
Our school has slapped us with surcharges requiring a minimum of fund rasing sales.
Then add on if the kids want to join activities.
The costs are out of control.
Do you only have 1 child?
Most of the average private schools around here (San Jose) are $10K, and the good ones are $20K. With 3 kids, that's $30K-60K a year. I keep on thinking I could homeschool them and then pay a private tutor to supplement what I am doing for much cheaper.
I don't plan on having kids until I am in my prime money-making years. By then, I should be making enough bread to get them out of the state-sanctioned day care centers known as "public schools."
No, it's like saying calculate the expenses of the car into the price you'll be paying.
Kids? Sure, they're cute and they may even grow up one day to cure cancer, win the World Series or end world hunger (a long shot, but it could happen). However, until that time they are money sucking vortexes and black holes of needs.
Sound familiar?
My kids go to private school. If I add up the years they will be in private school and multiple it by the amount of children I have...I'm looking at 6 figures.
That is not petty cash for me.
If I homeschool, they lose out on the socialization.
If I send them to public school, they will be in a school that has gang fights no less they 12 times a week.
That's what we thought, but the good Lord had other plans in mind for us.
We were planning on 2 kids. He gave us identical twins after our first kid. Both twins almost died of a respiratory infection, and one has brain damage.
We have spent thousands of dollars every year on speech therapy for the twins, occupational therapy, preschool, and then all the basics.
We cannot afford to pay 3 kids private tuition, plus the therapy for my daughter with brain damage.
You think you are prepared, but God has other things in mind. I thought my kids would never go to public school, but they are all in it.
Good choice.
westchester has some excellent public schools, so do a fair number (but shrinking) of districts on long island.
If you lived in NYC, would you send your kids to the Publik Skools? Hell, you'd have to put a gun to my head to send my kids to a public school on Lawn Guyland, let along Manhattan.
You know better than that -- what about Bronx Science or Stuy, or the School for the Performing Art?
Tha article cites it as a private school. Read it again.
True, but your average graduate of Dalton is more likely to be calling the shots at Goldman or Citibank than the kid who graduates from Exurban Public High School in McSuburb, Texas.
Bless you all.
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