How do hungry kids afford education?
According to the NZ Herald, parents are paying a record high amount for school donations, with costs for public secondary schools amounting to $3139 a year and $2047 for primary.
These costs include fees, extracurricular, clothing, necessities, travel and computers. And we all know those ‘donations’ are not at all optional.
All of those categories are necessary for a student’s learning, development and educational development.
It’s incredibly unfair for a student to miss out on a learning experience because their parents struggle to pay for it, not to mention the peer pressure that comes with that. This is how inequality perpetuates.
Of course these things cost money to acquire and someone needs to foot that bill, as unfortunate as that is. As much as education has no monetary value, we live in a system where everything is run by money, even the opportunities of innocent children in their futures.
But to put that burden on parents who are stuck between wanting the best for their children’s education and struggling to pay for the cost that comes with that.
If some families can’t even afford a decent breakfast, how can we expect all these other expenses to be easy to pay?
So where is all the money going that National borrows offshore $105 Billion and rising, few assets left to sell, what happens next?
to fund govt. expenditure with the top three currently:-
Social security and welfare: $28.2 billion
Health: $14.7 billion
Education: $13.5 billion
What happens next?
We are in the black so theoretically we shouldn’t have to borrow any more and we can slowly pay back our debt over the next few years.
Key, the national party & their supporters want low wages so as these people that do low paid jobs cant get a decent education
The ACT Party has always been about choice and the free-market. In New Zealand, ever since 1984’s Lange-ACT coalition Government, the choices for New Zealanders have been crystal clear. Vote for an ACT Party and have user-pays health, education etc. By privatising other wasteful government spending, it takes government out of the corporate sector and allows market forces to prevail.
If you pursue higher education then I’m afraid it’s user-pays. If you don’t pursue education, that’s a choice also and Kiwis can’t expect higher wages if they choose not to invest in free-market education for their children.
Sir Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble and all great ACT leaders since, such as Mr Banks, Mr Brash, Mr Hyde and Mr Whyte have all faithfully and unwaveringly pursued asset sales and privatisation. The market revolution will be complete when the TPPA is signed on the 4th February and we can start getting benefit for New Zealanders by offering up the last great assets such as land, foreshore and seabed.
It’s just as well we have the charismatic and popular 4th Term shoe-in Mr Key to allow ACT to thrive and go forward into a bright new future.