Dr. Pepper: With all due respect to you, your calculation will not work. by average, if you were to calculate tuitions using your formula, a parent would have to pay approx. $40,000 per child. In most center-to-right wing schools this amount is not on the drawing board. So, I agree that if the school asks for $50,000 and someone actually pays it, they can request a charity receipt for the $10,000 difference. (Whether or not this is legal, I don’t know. You would have to ask an accountant or tax lawyer, of which I am neither).
AAQ: The ones who pay more are only subsidizing the ones who pay less if the ones who pay more are paying more than it costs to educate their own child. I don’t believe this is true in 99.9999% of cases. This is because full tuition is not made by taking the budget and dividing it by the number of students (see above) It is a number that the school feels that their clientele should be able to pay, for the most part. Of course, as we see by this thread, that point is subject to debate (that the parents should be able to pay that amount.)
