- 8 year old.
- 99% of LA secondary schools are dreadful. Some are simply riot control.
- Moving isn't an option.
- Increasing our income is unlikely but we're looking.
- We don't drive for medical reasons so can't go to a school further away.
- We have no debt apart from our mortgage which is about half way through.
- We have some savings but our house is literally falling apart so we MUST spend them on that.
Are we being stupid thinking about getting into a not insignificant amount of debt to pay for private school? We could pay maybe half the cost of the fees and exams without borrowing but that excludes uniforms, extra-cirricular activities, all the other random stuff. We are confident we could get the credit at good rates.
Obviously this would then have a knock on effect on the amount of financial support we could provide for uni, first house etc.
Plus the headache of getting back into debt we've worked hard to get out of and the finincial imlact it would have on us long term.