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Mike Hoxbig said:
There's two sides to that. I made new friends in uni, because whoever I went to school with either went to different universities or studied different degrees. I believe this actually helped me.

If the kid uses their friends as a crutch and is unable to make new friends, they're going to have a hard time in the workplace where the churn of meeting new people is far more frequent as you or other people keep changing jobs...
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True true. Depends on your kid then tbh.

Workplace also teaches you to make an impact on people in 2-4 years so when things come up they think of you.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Makes no difference what school, everyone gets to the same university where you're equal.

As long as the school doesn't employ complete retards or criminals, and treats all children equally, you just need to spend some time with your kid and they will succeed.

Throwing money at it and making them someone else's problem doesn't suddenly turn the fruits of your loins into Isaac Newtons...
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Errrmmm.. Not quite. I'd wager that a lot of the kids in these schools end up going to overseas universities.

Agree with most of the sentiment of the post though.
 
Pho3nix said:
Any joint income over 1.6mil a year tbh.
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Ahhh. So the stats puts upper middle closer to 800k per household IIRC. Also, to be fair I don't think a lot of even 1.6mil per annum households are spending 200k per year on schooling.
 
Y'all Qaeda said:
Ahhh. So the stats puts upper middle closer to 800k per household IIRC. Also, to be fair I don't think a lot of even 1.6mil per annum households are spending 200k per year on schooling.
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Just working off what I’m seeing from colleagues and the like.

Unisa is enough for me lol
 
Pho3nix said:
Just working off what I’m seeing from colleagues and the like.

Unisa is enough for me lol
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So international uni's, looking at Netherlands, cost is around 11k euros per year, then you still need food and accomodation - even at 1.6mil per annum, you cannot really afford that.....
 
Y'all Qaeda said:
Errrmmm.. Not quite. I'd wager that a lot of the kids in these schools end up going to overseas universities.

Agree with most of the sentiment of the post though.
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I was surprised to see this - my neighbours with two daughters; one spent a very happy year at Stellies but ultimately both ended up in the UK studying engineering in different places there. But parents are well off (run a business that has plants all over SA and in Africa) and very, very strategic and advanced thinkers (IMHO). Friends have kids that have got bursaries or scholarships to study in Holland and in the US. But probably half of our friends have children living and studying or working outside of SA.
 
Oldfut said:
I was surprised to see this - my neighbours with two daughters; one spent a very happy year at Stellies but ultimately both ended up in the UK studying engineering in different places there. But parents are well off (run a business that has plants all over SA and in Africa) and very, very strategic and advanced thinkers (IMHO). Friends have kids that have got bursaries or scholarships to study in Holland and in the US. But probably half of our friends have children living and studying or working outside of SA.
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Indeed. The people really spending the $ to get their kids into these high end schools, are likely planning to send kids overseas. That's what I've seen happening.
 
Y'all Qaeda said:
So international uni's, looking at Netherlands, cost is around 11k euros per year, then you still need food and accomodation - even at 1.6mil per annum, you cannot really afford that.....
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I think we are misunderstanding each other. Upper middle class is doing Stellies, UP and Wits. They can afford most of the private schools in SA for primary and high school.

They’re poor internationally
 
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