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How 2 Send Your Child 2 a Rheely Expensive (and Excellent) Private School | EduShyster

How 2 Send Your Child 2 a Rheely Expensive (and Excellent) Private School | EduShyster:


How 2 Send Your Child 2 a Rheely Expensive (and Excellent) Private School

It’s a conundrum faced by nearly every public school parent. You run an organization that puts students first, but sending your own personal student to an elite private school costs a flippin’ fortune. Twenty two thousand large to be exact. And that’s just the start of it. As any public school parent who also sends her child to an elite private school with an annual tuition bill of $22,000 knows all too well, the annual tuition bill of $22,000 is just the beginning.
Putting your own personal student first requires keeping up with all of the other parents who are also putting their own personal students first. Which means shelling out mad cash for the cute Lily Pulitzer outfits, the Winterim trip to someplace fabulous and the debutante ball—not to mention the private SAT coach that your personal student will totally need if she is to have any hopes of attending an Ivy League school and someday Teaching for America.
No worries, public school parent. You could get your hands on one of these excellent Tennessee opportunity scholarships, which are really excellent, by the way, as they allow students who were formerly being stifled in failing and failed public schools to take the money that used to go towards paying their ineffective LIFO lifer