re: Private schools parents: What do you pay for tuition?

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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.

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or you could just move to a non-liberal area and send your kids to a good public school.

It's always funny to me seeing young people buy in hip, trendy, gentrifying areas that are riddled with crime if you go a couple blocks in the wrong direction, then once they start having kids it's "oh shite, we can't send them to school here, guess we have to send them to private school. Only we probably can't afford it..." but will refuse to move because they don't want to leave the "cool" area.

Not saying that applies to you specifically OP, just a tale I've seen repeated many times with other Atlanta people I've grown up with.

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Before and after!

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I'd say most schools are a variation of 8am-3pm give or take 30 mins on each side of that. Work schedule+commute makes it impossible for normal hour working folks to pull off drop off/pick up at these times. It's not like you leave them there for three hours before and three hours after.

I lived in Brookhaven for 8 years before moving out of state, good guess though. And I saw many, many, many people have to spend out the arse sending their kids to Marist since the only other choice was Cross Keys lol. And that's a relatively "good" situation...imagine the other people I know that wanted to be super hip and buy in edgewood, midtown, etc. At least all of them actually wised up and moved towards oconee instead.

North of atlanta definitely has some great spots for sure. I would've been very happy living in certain places north of town. Which begs the question...if the area is so nice, why are you so terrified to put your kids into the public school there? Most "very nice" places to live have public schools you'd be proud to send your kids to.

STM went up and added fees for next year too

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you may want to start donating and getting involved in Church

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I've done none of this and had no issues getting my kids into catholic schools in BR

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or you could just move to a non-liberal area and send your kids to a good public school.

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I’m not just concerned about the peers at the school, but also the wackjob public school teachers (obviously this doesn’t pertain to all of them). I went to a rural conservative public school and I know they have had their fair share of libtard teachers since I graduated.

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Where the hell does everyone get so much money?

$22k + $18k in private school tuition would crush us. We make $150k/year combined.

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We are in about the same income range. We save a lot of money over the course of a year to pay our tuition all at once. We'd have to drastically change our lives to pay that shite monthly. I don't know how people do that. That's where a lot of our money goes, to school stuff. But we also don't live beyond our means. A lot of kids driving nice trucks, cars and jeeps at our school, parents living in nice houses. we have modest house and modest cars.