Posted on 02/26/2007 8:20:35 PM PST by patton
Cool! I lived in Falls Church (on Van Buren) when my dad was stationed at the Pentagon in the early 60's. We attened the Falls Church. My brother found some antique horseshoes there once. I went to Madison Elementary School. I remember like it was yesterday when the principal came to the door of our classroom and announced that the President had been shot.
Madison got knocked down in the 70's, due to declining enrollment. That is why we just spent $31m on a new school.
Ping.
Which one?
Don't you have anything better to do during your lunch break, like um, maybe EAT?????
I can eat at my desk...LOL
More ritzy schools that are cheaper than PS kindergarten (PE consists of horseback riding, etc)
Congressional Schools of VA - 19,250
Flint Hill Academy - 22,935
And the only school I found that cost more than PS kindergarten - Madiera at 28,330
madiera? not sending the bug there... :(
FYI, as someone whose kids all attend private schools, let me tell you that almost all private schools have endowment funds, and gala fundraisers, all of which go to supplement the tuition. we have received calls every year from Visitation, and now Gonzaga, asking for donations to the annual fund on top of already hefty tuition. xsteen will be solicited for her OWN donation to Visitation, next year, her first year in college. so yes, public schools are grossly inefficient in their money management, private schools do a much better job, but tuition is not the only $$$ paying the frieght at these schools.
I agree - and most catholic schools recieve some parish support.
But the cost of a public kindergarten education is a crime, IMHO.
Interesting accounting bump.
I am amazed that this went nowhere - I was astounded to find out what public education really costs.
I guess most folks are just jaded to it.
Sad.
i am surprised it took you this long to figure this out, frankly, this is your third kid. imagine how thrilled we are to pay the same taxes to support those schools, in which our kids have not and will not spend one minute.
It's not that I lacked a sense of something rotten in denmark, it is that I lacked time to go research it.
And your joy at this epiphany is just my revenge for the whole SS thing. ;)
Actually, there is an endowed PS in VA - it is paid for by the endowment interest, not taxes. I have to really look into that.
But first, I want to see how much we spend on the 8-bed homeless shelter, with no kitchen.
Bet it is over a million.
Sigh. Tell xsteen she is a genious, it IS FEWFC.
Which one what? President? Kennedy. Church? THE Falls Church. Speaking of Kennedy, my father, a major at the time, was responsible for changing the code for military communications during the Cuban missile crisis. No doubt it is now far more sophisticated and far faster than the 1/2 hour gap between code changes back then.
Well...bummer. I found out last year that the house we lived in when my father was stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB is now a swimming pool in a city park. Almost makes me feel like I imagined that part of my life.
Sounds like a few of you responding on this thread know each other. An interesting accounting twitch is that in Washington State (and a few others), a child can obtain his associate's degree tuition-free if he is enrolled in a public high school. The state says it is less expensive in the long run. Huh? My homeschooled son was one of the many homeschoolers to take advantage of that. Enroll in public high school, never set foot in it except to grab a transcript for a four-year college, and graduate from high school and junior college at the same time. Not a bad deal...
Not bad at all. Clever.
See page 2 of this weeks FCNP. LOLOLOL.
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