Reply To: Tuition Pricing

@Dr. Pepper
You can’t capture every scenario but at least my argument adds fairness. Take for example your case where the mother won’t work because she will loose handouts. I think by handouts you refer to govt programs. Well such a family would be charged more for tuition under my formula. Granted it won’t capture the “not working” but it will produce the same result because it captures the net income and your argument would get captured there as well. I think some forms do ask things like do you get support do you get thus capturing housing. Does it capture the going to mechnaic vs fixing things on your own scenario? No. ia gree its not perfect but I think once you are looking at income and making a decsion based on that its silly not to call govt prgarms or free tution in another school as income.

@amom, & Always_Ask_Questions,. I don’t mean to say lets look at every one of your expenses. I get there is a point of nitty gritty that makes it impossible. But if the certain basic staples are covered that very big. If you don’t like to call it net inflows, another way to label it is just income. But income includes any money you get whether its from the govt or from tips or from chasedi lev or support from others. Thats all income. (the only area that this would differ is free tuttion in another school wouldn’t be counted via just looking at income) Why isn’t receiving govt programs income? It can eqaute to $50K post tax annually to someone who is savvy.

@nishtdayngesheft: That’s not fair for a tuition committee to accommodate one person over the other. That isn’t their job to do. You ask how i affects me? Simple math if you give someone who gets all these freebies a discount because their “income” is low, while really my “net income” is lower I have to pay for that. It really costs say $10K to educate a child. But someone who is a rebbe only pays lets say $7K. Then I need to pay $13K to cover that gap. (I am oversimplifying it but that’s the idea), Now what about hakars Hatov to the rebbe? Thats very nice we can start a chaesdi lev who offers scholarships to a rebbe because of their hard dedicated work just like they offer free groceries. It shouldn’t be part of a the tuition committee cheshbon. And I don’t just mean a rebbe but anyone who gets programs.