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  • #1082
    Sammy2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,365 ✭✭✭Sammy2012


    Very sensible lady on at the moment. As a parent, these costs make no sense to me. And from listing to the list they've juts read out it sounds like a lot of the costs are there to sensationalise the figures.



  • #1083
    BPKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,338 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    During silly season every summer we get days and days of this topic.

    As somebody who dealt with the annual on-going cost, I always found these figures BS.

    Its also amusing that it comes as a surprise to people that you have to pay a every August for this - FFS you might get caught once but then you should be budgeting.

    I also found it annoying that the people complaining about these costs were typically the ones who were able to go abroad for holidays every summer.

    And finally, if you think primary and secondary education is bad, wait til you try and send them away to 3rd level.



  • #1084
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,745 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "in an eyepad school"



  • #1085
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Megan not happy with the free burks being required for the eye pad.



  • #1086
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Paid for by the Government, says caller. No Caller, paid for by the Irish Taxpayer.



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  • #1087
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    1,200 for an eye pad... F. Me.



  • #1088
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,099 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    the eye-pad was a total joke to begin with, and so is the changing of books yearly.



  • #1089
    purifol0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭purifol0


    Do they bring the tablets home?



  • #1090
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Colm, 600 euro for the free school. I don't think there are many in Montrose sending their children to free schools.



  • #1091
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,558 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    €600 to do transition year 😬 and no fancy trip somewhere included.



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  • #1092
    archfi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭archfi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123644788#Comment_123644788

    That's iPad Pro territory (starting €1,109 with education savings)



  • #1093
    BPKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,338 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    And a lunch is an additional cost

    Cos they don't eat any lunch when they aren't at school.



  • #1094
    mumo3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭mumo3


    I had two kids in the same school 3 years apart, it always boggled me how I couldn't hand down the books, all they seem to do was change a paragraph or two and that's it then a new issue of the book was required!!

    Even when the youngest finished, the books couldn't be donated because they'd been updated so into the bin they went



  • #1095
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,745 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Caller! mention the tv licence



  • #1096
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,558 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    €150 a week on lunches...fine dining for the Childers? 🦞



  • #1097
    littlevillage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,924 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    Colm showing his mastery of the mattymatix 🤓

    The previous presenter would have been hopelessly lost at this stage.



  • #1098
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,745 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Dunnes being plugged



  • #1099
    BPKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,338 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    Every mother knows the cosy of lunches - because no father is out there buy the shopping or make lunches



  • #1100
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,558 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123644816#Comment_123644816

    And the teachers always insisted on new books needed, I think a lot of them were on bungs from the publishers.



  • #1101
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123644822#Comment_123644822

    Pre packaged by Marks & Spencer's



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  • #1102
    BPKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,338 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    Get your daughter to go to the local supermarket and ask can she get a job for a few hours every Saturday and Sunday. That would pay for the TY trip in 2026.



  • #1103
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,099 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123644827#Comment_123644827

    having to get new books each year, yet still working off years old leaving cert papers ? The exam questions repeat, but new books required. It makes no sense what so ever



  • #1104
    littlevillage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,924 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123644825#Comment_123644825

    Not called out by the presenter.....naturally



  • #1105
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Colm, It you don't pay the voluntary contribution, the school Secretary hounds you for it.



  • #1106
    mumo3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭mumo3


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123644832#Comment_123644832

    I actually said this to my sons school when he was in TY…. asked why the kids weren't out fundraising for it themselves, with either bag packing or bake sales like they do with the sports teams!!



  • #1107
    purifol0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭purifol0


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123644827#Comment_123644827

    Yep and the principals were often in cahoots with local suppliers for uniforms back in my day. Its only gotten worse over time, especially with all the extras and voluntary contributions.

    Heck the provision of expensive ipads and clueless teachers moonlighting as IT guys for the extra €7K/yr makes a mockery of free education



  • #1108
    mumo3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭mumo3


    Every year I paid €20 towards the voluntary contribution of €150, and nothing was ever said to me.



  • #1109
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Missis, In my day we had no School Diary. We had a normal copybook and called it a homework notebook.



  • #1110
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,558 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Few chilled cans in a bag.



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  • #1111
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,558 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Jaws 4.



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