Currently, my jr hs is 38k/ yr and my hs is 66k/ yr. The NE summer camp i attended is now 9k/ 7wks.
Kevin's numbers always made perfect sense to me.
And this is why understanding tradeoffs and opportunity costs are important, especially for men. Generally speaking if you want your child to be competitive at that level you have to make several huge tradeoffs. And that may mean sacrificing living in a Tier 1 city, having only 1 kid, buying a smaller house in a great school district, or waiting to have kids until the late 30's (this is another reason an age gap is beneficial).
My ex didn't understand how I wanted to raise a kid and that's why we broke up. I had a lot of peaks and valleys in my academic career, and my parents not understanding the role of financially investing in your kid played a part. Like many working class parents they wanted to simulatenously self actualize and help their kids self actualize, but that only works if you make alot of money.
However, my ex like my parents believed that academic outcomes was mainly about individual talent and hard work. Whereas, having competed and worked with the upper middle class understand those factors are neccessary but insufficient, they emphasize financial investment in education and creating networks so that their kids can benefit from being plugged in throughout their careers.
The difference in mindset and process is how my friend whose parents paid $20k per yr/$240k total in private school, ended up receiving a full scholarship for both undergrad and law school, and eventually got a job at elite firm making over $180k a year. In sum, his parents spent $240k on the front end to put their kid in position to make $180k per year on the back end with no student loan debt and the potential to obtain and secure an elite network.