At the same time that classes resumed in our country, a company specialized in collaborative marketing called trnd announced Household spending higher than last year. The sample consisted of 3103 people (who have conducted a self-administered survey) with children of school age from all the Autonomous Communities of Spain.
The complete study has many percentages on the origin of the respondents, expenditure items (books, dining room, extracurriculars, etc.), and even where parents go preferably to buy.
It hasn't brought me much because “More expense” yes, but how much more?, because although we each know when our portfolio has been emptied, it is good to have a more global vision. Well, the Federation of Independent Consumer Users (FUCI) has come to tell us that on average there are about 846 euros. And yet, a French television channel (TF1) has made a comparison according to which a child in sixth grade (it seems to me that it is one of only two courses that is called the same as in Spain) it comes to spend on the other side of the Pyrenees 189 euros.
And we are not talking precisely about a country with a worse social and economic situation than ours, no
La rentrée scolaire, six fois plus chère in Spain sur WAT.tv
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Here the books are very expensive (although in theory the price has not increased), the uniforms also make the “pack” more expensive and many others are added to this concept… FUCI contributes that the books in the public school are around 180 euros per child, it is not entirely true: we are from the public and those of the little one have cost 250. Those of the elder are second-hand, more for the conviction that it is necessary to modify the consumerist culture a bit than for the impossibility of paying them ( It is also in one of the courses in which the LOMCE does not modify textbooks).
TF1 has a conservative orientation and is a leading media throughout Europe, I say this because there is probably no intention of discrediting education in Spain, rather than point out a notable difference. I know that in France (for example) textbooks are provided free of charge (this is more in line with public education). I imagine that using control systems to ensure good use and responsibility in case of spoiling them.
I don't know, there will be other factors, of course, but I doubt that by making families spend more every year we get better positions in the international rankings.
