GAW- I have an issue with your idea of a “professional courtesy”. This idea may be part of the problem why so many schools are having financial trouble. All tuition reductions should be based on financial need only. I have lived in an area where most of the kids in the community school were children of teachers. They happened to have the most kids and they had significant tuition reductions because of the fact that they were in chinuch. The school ended up closing. Why should teachers get a tuition reduction if they can pay? You stated that they should get it regardless of financial need.
[By the way… was there a big commotion about a little school outside of NY closing here? be ashamed because although it is small according to NY standards, it was the ONLY school in the area. It had ALL the kids from the area in it. Some kids ended up in public school, others moved under great financial difficulty to other cities and a few made the 2+ hour commute each way to the next community where there was a school. This happens in many areas around the country all the time.]