Tuition this year is 14,200 pesos a month for two.
Bus is still 2,800 a month each.
He arrives at EXACTLY 6:26 every morning!
Never late, never misses.
Books were even more expensive than ever.
About 20,000 pesos each.
AND, no matter what the Ministry of Education said,("We will Use the same books for 4 years") they didn't, so my 7th grader can never use her 8th grade sisters books.
Which are really not "BOOKS" but soft cover work books.
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There is something wrong.
1. Most private schools use books by Santillana (90%)
2. 7th & 8th grade Santillana pack costs at my daughter's school 11.000 pesos (her 6th grade was 10.500) and this comes with a PIN for Santillana Compartir electronic classroom home office.
3. I did the math and the books cost actually less in a pack than what they would cost in a store
4. The newest edition of books is Todos Juntos, but 7th and 8th grade still use former Innova version (there is not yet Todos Juntos edition released for 7th and 8th grades).
5. Editions are about 3-4 years apart, Innova was 2012 and Todos Juntos is 2015. My daughter still got Caligraphia book from Innova version apparently Caligrafia is not yet released under Todos Juntos edition. It's the only Innova edition book in her pack, all others are Todos Juntos.
6. Todos Juntos is 2015 edition, Innova (Caligrafia) is 2012 edition with 2015 reprint.
Books pack consisted of:
(book + workbook)
Spanish
Math
Social Sc.
Natural Sc.
English
French
Caligrafia
Ortografia
A novel
Apparently there is some
tigueraje going on on part of the school if they charge 20k for this (but then, maybe they use a different publishing house).
My daughter is in what is deemed to be the best school in Higuey (Serafines) and the tuition is 2700 pesos per month and seems to be the most expensive in Higuey. This school is somehow a school of "richest of the Higuey's rich" (there is a morning/afternoon traffic jam in front of the school consisting of year 2020 yipetas, and I am still holding my hopes to see some kids be brought by helicopters). Bus service is 2,000 per month.