The cost of starting school increased by 126 percent

With just a few days to go until the start of the new academic year, families preparing for school face a heavy financial burden to meet their educational needs, such as stationery, extra resource books, school uniforms, and transportation service.

Stating that wage and salary improvements remained below actual inflation rates, and that school costs increased in line with market conditions, Yeliz Toy, Bursa Branch Education President, said: ” Turkstat inflation is 47.8%, stationery inflation is 126%.This situation is desperate for parents struggling with economic crisis and poverty,” he said.

“THE COST OF INITIAL EDUCATION INCREASED TO 17 THOUSAND TL”

Stating that they, like Eğitim-İş Bursa Branch, are conducting research on the change in the cost of starting school compared to the previous year, in the process of preparing for the new academic year, Toy said:

“According to the study, it was found that there was a 126 percent increase in average start-up costs. While the cost of starting preschool education was 7,626 TL last year, it increased to 17,234 TL this year.

In primary school, while the cost of starting school was 12,500 TL last year, it has reached 28,295 TL this year.

The cost of starting school, which was 13,304 TL in high school, reached 30,06 TL this year, and the cost of starting high school, which was 13,717 TL last year, reached 31 thousand TL this year. .”

“School uniforms have tripled”

Yeliz Toy, President of Eğitim İş Bursa Branch, conveyed the results of his research, saying, “Based on the prices we collected from stationery, internet shopping platforms and stores, the rate of increase of stationery products varies between 92% and 318%. The price of school uniforms has increased 3 times and the price of shoes has increased 2 times,” she said.

Stating that current prices for student transport fares have yet to be determined, Toy stated that he believes there will be an increase at least at this rate due to the massive increases in fuel after the interim increase in ferries last year. February.

HIDDEN FEE IN SCHOOL TUITION

Stating that parents who knock on the doors of schools outside the address area to provide a quality education opportunity for their children, face registration fees ranging from 20 thousand TL to 60 thousand TL under the name of donations, and continued as follows:

“The Ministry of National Education, which is in charge of providing quality educational opportunities to all children, sells the vacant seats in the few schools with a qualified educational environment as a commercial product. In a reality where those with money buy quality education from the state, the basic rule of our Constitution that education is free has been completely overturned.

Although the Ministry of National Education announced to the public last year that each school would receive as much funding as it needed, the funds sent were well below what the schools needed. The school administrations, which could not cover their security, cleaning, maintenance-repair and personnel needs, put the vacant seats up for sale with registration fees under the name of donations.

The cost of starting school, registration fees and other costs will negatively affect formal education by causing children to drop out of school or transition to open education programs in this environment of economic crisis, where poverty is more widespread.” .

“SUPPORT MUST BE PROVIDED FOR THE START OF EDUCATION”

Yeliz Toy, head of the Education Business Bursa branch, finally said:

“To guarantee the right to education, which is a fundamental human right, the billions of TL transferred by the Ministry of National Education to reactionary foundations and associations must be transferred to millions of poor families whose monthly income is below the threshold of poverty as support to start education.

Under these conditions, at least 30,000 TL must be awarded for each student from families whose monthly income is below the poverty line. Our children should not pay the bill for the economic crisis”.