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Perhaps the website for the school is incomplete and only listing registration fees and not tuition but the only figure I see is $750, which is not nothing for plenty of families but is hardly what I would call expensive when it comes to private education. Am I missing something? Very well could be!

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I see tuition of several thousand (e.g. 7,800 for 8-11th grade): https://smaneworleans.com/tuition-fees

Still quite a steal as private schools go, and significantly less than one would have to pay in yearly rent / mortgage to get their kids into a good school district.

It’s a “steal” if you make California wages. For Louisiana, that’s a lot of money. The median home price in New Orleans is roughly $230k — in Santa Clara county, CA, it’s $1.3 million. That makes the tuition comparable to $45k per year which is more expensive that the best private schools in Silicon Valley.

The math is sloppy, but the point is that the tutoring isn’t really a “steal.”

Ahh, the tuition was cut off on mobile and did not realize there was horizontal scroll.

Parents that care are a huge predictor of academic success. Putting your child in a private school, even an affordable one, is more effort than just going with the default option and thus serves as signal for parents caring.

Are new articles about people’s accomplishments “remiss” for not including statements about how much their parents cared about them?

Wealth is a huge predictor of academic (and business) success. Let’s put family wealth at the top of any news article about achievements, please.

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