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re: Private schools parents: What do you pay for tuition?
Posted on 4/11/26 at 10:38 am to Uga Alum
Posted on 4/11/26 at 10:38 am to Uga Alum
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If Isent my kids to that school I’d have to live in Baton Rouge. No thanks.
No you don't. I don't live in Baton Rouge and most of my kid's friends there live in either Ascension or Livingston parish. You just have to get them there.
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Posted on 4/11/26 at 11:11 am to Uga Alum
Walker School?
Nice school that kinda seems to be in a sketchy area.
Nice school that kinda seems to be in a sketchy area.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 11:23 am to Uga Alum
For the 26-27 school year I'm looking at 3rd - $17.5k and 8th - $19k.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 12:52 pm to ChatGPT of LA
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Youre an absolute moron. Hure a nanny, get much more done, and have her gives him ABC coloring books
I don't know which school they are at in ATL, but at prestigious schools starting in PreK is often the only way to get your kid in without some serious juice in admin, a last name they want, or the money to make a large donation. My grandchild is at Nysmith in NOVA and did beginner and PreK there. Starting early is the only real way to get in.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:37 am to tigerfoot
Just seeing this! Say it ain’t so! Iggles can’t beat tha Trojans!!!
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:49 am to danilo
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Thanks for reassuring my decision not to have kids
Its like another income stream. Amazing to read these type of posts.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:52 am to Uga Alum
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Was trying to figure out if I am getting ripped off
You're paying 22K for kindergarten and you're trying to figure out if you're being ripped off. Did you go to the same school as a child?
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:12 am to Kracka
Kracka CHNI is less than Pius, STM, and Teurlings???
ETA: $14,000 is for both? That’s a deal if so.
ETA: $14,000 is for both? That’s a deal if so.
This post was edited on 4/14/26 at 9:15 am
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:15 am to Uga Alum
ours is catholic school.....roughly 8500 each for the younger 2 after all fees and then roughly 11k for the oldest for high school. so roughly 27-30k. i would have to go look to know exactly.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:17 am to Uga Alum
Elementary was about 9k/year when mine were (Catholic/parochial) not counting parish donations.
High School was about $12k/year (Catholic high schools)
BR area
Of course, this is old info as both of mine have graduated college.
High School was about $12k/year (Catholic high schools)
BR area
Of course, this is old info as both of mine have graduated college.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:18 am to lsu777
Mine went to BR Catholic High and it was around 14k plus everything else...it was money well spent.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:23 am to Skywalker
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Mine went to BR Catholic High and it was around 14k plus everything else...it was money well spent.
yep...i feel its very much money well spent for sure.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:37 am to Uga Alum
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My son is in kindergarten. His tuition is $22k. My daughter is 3. Her tuition is $18k. We live in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Edit: the high school tuition for my kids’ current school is $30k+ per student. Will likely be more when my kids are in high school.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:38 am to Uga Alum
7k a kid for my 2 elementary aged kids in BR. I went to a "good public school" in BR growing up. My kids are learning things a grade faster than we learned them in school. So my 2nd grader can do what I could do in the 3rd grade. Feels like money well spent.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:42 am to Uga Alum
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My son is in kindergarten. His tuition is $22k. My daughter is 3. Her tuition is $18k. We live in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
20 years ago, my friend and his wife decided to move their daughter from her public school kindergarten class to a small private Christian school. He told me, "a year of her going to Kindergarten cost more than a year of her going to UT" (they live in Knoxville). After a week of school, he picked her up one day and was driving her home. He asked what they did today and she said, "we learned to play Simon Says". He thought to himself...I'm paying this kind of money for her to play games...that's crazy. She asked, "do you want to play Simon Says with me?" He said he did...then she started playing Simon Says in French. They just learned how to play Jacques a dit, so she would say something like "Jacques a dit de lever la main". They only learned a couple of different commands...but it was pretty telling.
She is 25 now and finished in the top 1% on the National Latin Exam her Senior year of High School. She earned a degree in Agronomy from Iowa State, and was accepted to Grad School at Purdue. After she graduated, but before grad school, two of her close friends were killed in a church shooting. She decided to change her focus...she got married and she and her husband are on Church Staff with a Salt Network Church...dedicated to supporting Student Ministries.
She is a brilliant kid, and she would have been successful wherever she went to school...but the education she received has blessed a lot of people. Private school doesn't work miracles...but it does challenge kids to work in a different way than most public schools.
ETA...my boys both went to private school, and the annual tuition was around 15K each per year...they both graduated in 2024.
This post was edited on 4/14/26 at 9:44 am
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:44 am to Uga Alum
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Will likely be more when my kids are in high school.
Not likely, it WILL be more. School tuition will go up 3-5% per year like clockwork. Plan on $40-$45K per year by the time they are in HS.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:49 am to Uga Alum
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My son is in kindergarten. His tuition is $22k. My daughter is 3. Her tuition is $18k. We live in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Whatever you do, don't risk your children in the public schools or a large private school.
The curriculum is never the problem. It's a lack of control, supervision, and social pressure. The best route is the small Classical Christian environment. Tuition is typically about 8k to 14k. My sons and all their friends flew through college, grad school, and professional school thanks to the foundation built.
The human mind will absorb an incredible amount of information when clear to learn.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:51 am to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:growing up in the city of New Orleans, my parents worked hard for us to go to Catholic school so we weren’t beat up everyday
Let’s be honest, you pay for the segregation, not the education.
The education was top notch, too, none of us have any college debt.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 10:02 am to GreenRockTiger
Where the hell does everyone get so much money?
$22k + $18k in private school tuition would crush us. We make $150k/year combined.
I keep reading about inflation, gas prices, grocery prices (see my thread on it), housing prices, insurance costs, taxes, clothes, goods, everything. It's all getting too expensive.
But seems like a lot of people have boats, nice cars, a big house, private school tuition, vacations, alcohol, jewelry, the works.
Make it make sense.
$22k + $18k in private school tuition would crush us. We make $150k/year combined.
I keep reading about inflation, gas prices, grocery prices (see my thread on it), housing prices, insurance costs, taxes, clothes, goods, everything. It's all getting too expensive.
But seems like a lot of people have boats, nice cars, a big house, private school tuition, vacations, alcohol, jewelry, the works.
Make it make sense.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 10:06 am to StringedInstruments
quote:I went to mostly Catholic school growing up, but I homeschool our kids now.
Where the hell does everyone get so much money?
When my kids were in Catholic school, we did not take vacations, we did not eat out, kids did not have many extra curricular activities - we made a lot of sacrifices- just as my parents did.
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