The new academic year will begin on September 12. At the beginning of the education process, the parents who visit the bazaar for the school needs of their children are in a difficult situation in the face of the high prices they face. While the education cost of students, calculated from kindergarten to high school, doubled compared to last year, stationery, service fees and other expenses of a student who will start a new school almost caught the minimum wage. With the increase in stationery products, the basic needs of students such as pencils, notebooks and erasers have increased significantly compared to last year, while the expenditures to be made only on stationery products for a student who will just start school are between 1,000 Turkish Liras (TL) and 2,000 TL. While the increase in stationery products bent the back of the parents, in addition to the increases in basic expenses, products such as service fees and school uniforms also suffered from exorbitant price increases. Especially with the exorbitant increase in backpacks, it was noteworthy that the prices started from 300 TL.
SCHOOL UNIFORM, TRACKSUIT, SHOES STARTING FROM 1,400 TL
In addition to stationery expenses, there were exorbitant price increases in the prices of necessities such as clothes and shoes. Even when only the most basic needs of students such as school clothes, tracksuits and sports shoes are taken into account, the prices are between 1,400 TL and 3,000 TL. Although there are different prices between public schools and private schools, these figures vary between 600 TL and 5,000 TL in private schools. With the exorbitant increases in the clothes that students will wear, a parent who buys only stationery and clothing products and buys them at the most affordable prices will have paid a total of 2,400 TL for these two titles.
IF AWAY FROM 15 KILOMETER, 15,000 TL WILL HAVE TO BE DISCARDED
While there are significant increases in the shuttle fees that students take to reach the school, if a student studying in Ankara is 15 kilometers away from his home and school, the parent has to discard an annual shuttle fee of 15,000 TL. While the parents were thinking about how to cover the costs of the student's commute to and from school, besides the school expenses, they reacted to the fact that the expenses to be made only at the beginning of the school almost reached the minimum wage.