<p>Few years ago, when there was a down turn of economy, many people were losing their jobs, our kid’s school had a fund raising to set up a fund to help families who have temporary fallen into a hard time. I want to stress temporary because the school operated based on expecting everyone to pay. The community was very generous and many families benefited from it. </p>
<p>Since we have been with the for many years, we heard quite a bit more stories from the administrator. There were families that asked for assistance, but refused to sell family vacation home, or cancel an European vacation because it was paid for already. </p>
<p>It is hard for us to speculate this family’s situation, but for a family to be able to afford a private education up to 12th grade(even beginning at 9th), the family must have had above average income. People like that, even fallen at hard time, would have substantial credit lines or savings, and they make a choice how they want to use it. I know at my kids’s school, if a family truly needed financial aid, it would have been given in the beginning of the year.</p>