2,200 Euro School Costs: Too Much for Many Families
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The school will soon start again – which neither children nor parents are happy about, because they will have to reckon with high costs for bags, pens & co. According to the study, the expenditures for the whole year sum up to a good 2200 euros. This is hardly affordable for poorer families, warns the diaconia. It demands more financial support. "100,000 elementary school children and 85,000 children in the lower level live in low-income househo…
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Le Journal de QuebecThe bill is salty for families who have to pay registration fees, uniforms, exercise books and many other things.
One month before school starts, the diaconia warns against high costs for materials, project days, tutoring and demands relief.
For the new school year, many children need new school materials. Poor families could spend the money on this, according to the Deakonia Lower Saxony. The Children's Protection Association agrees - and demands a system change.
Diakonie calculates: at the beginning of school 100 to 300 euros. School costs in the year 2,220 euros "100,000 elementary school children and 85,000 children in the lower level live in low-income households1, warns the social expert of the Diakonie Austria, Martin Schenk, of bad starting conditions for many children at the beginning of school. "School bag, sports bag, notebooks, pens, paint paints and handcrafted suitcases... – already a simple…
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