I understand public school attendance is free and mandatory; I also understand there are incidentals which need to be covered such as shoes, clothing/uniforms, notebooks and expendables. My question then is 10K pesos enough to get a student started? I don't wish to seem cheap but neither do I wish to overly contribute.
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Cost to attend public school - 12th grade
I only have second-hand info/experience from public schools, but I hope that 10k is very wrong, as otherwise the kids from a family we know would have never attended school. When our elder started in a private school in POP, yes, everything summed up it might have come close to 10k, but that was private, excluding the tuition.
this year they got one pair of pants, shoes, belt, socks and supposed to get a polo shirt but they ran out so they gave you a yellow one from last year. And the pant were 3 sizes too big, they ran out. Luckily I had already bought 2 polo shirts and 2 pants ( correct size) before the handout. They also got a government backpack with a few workbooks.
When I lived in Sosua I sponsored a number of kids at the beginning of the school year. They needed shirts, shoes, socks, notebooks, pencils and a haircut. It was maybe US$40. I think 10K pesos would be plenty and little more for some other needs like transportation. These were younger kids not in 12th grade.
Laptops went to a select group of liceo age students. Everyone else and downgrade got the Alcatel tablets, which were good quality. There were periods where certain populations were selected to exchange damaged ones for new devices as well. That said, another corrupt deal of the MoE. As of last school year, there were various warehouses identified with millions worth of inventories in strategic locations around the country. Just sitting there collecting dust. Also, teachers were given the privilege of being assigned X amount of inventory to "family and friends".
There are no textbooks used in the public schools, other than possibly the ones the teachers use to copy verbatim on the chalkboard so the students can, in turn, copy this into their notebooks. This is called "a lesson".
It cost me about 10,000 pesos each to kit out two kids for Liceo, which included uniforms, exercise books, pens etc. Then I had to buy each of them a tablet.
You have a strange sense of humour, Hijo de Mangu, finding my post funny.
Well, tbh, now there's something wrong with using emoji reactions provided by the app? Jeez, some people's kids!
It is only if you read the post he paid 10,000 each..............
That is not correct. They have textbooks. The teaching methods are another thing altogether.