The cuts in education they will affect more than many parents think in the next school year: we will find centers where students will wear 'tupper' and they will also have to pay, the figure of child support teachers will have been eliminated in some schools, the ratios will be higher, etc.
It is no longer about equality or inequality, but that rather, it seems like a new attack on families with children who are forging the country, because if you do not invest in culture and education it is not that much can be expected from the future.
But in addition to the cuts, we will find the VAT increase in various materials for school use (which also have other utilities), as well as notebooks, spare parts, plasticine and others will be applied an increase of 17 points (from 4 to 21 percent). In this sense books, newspapers and magazines that do not contain only advertising, as well as albums, scores, maps and sketchbooks are exempt from the upload; All these maintain the reduced rate of 4%.
Therefore we can imagine lto quantity of materials to which the increase is applied, because it is true that they are not only for use in school, but it is also true that teachers are going to ask us for rules, squares, acrylic paints, paints, waxes, squares, conveyor, folios, covers, and much more.
And you know what? that it is true that books will not rise in price due to VAT, but it is also true that in many Communities the Book Bonus system has been eliminated, and that the inexperience linked to the reluctance of many management teams, prevents the implementation of systems of 'banks' or 'recycling' (which work in some territories of our country). But above all it is true that there are dozens of schools that have finished the period of permanence with the publishers, they have signed new agreements to introduce the quarterly book system. Some say that this will not make books more expensive, others say that they will certainly be more expensive, it remains to be seen, but I fear that more than one of us will have empty pockets
So we will have to settle for applying for scholarships that will not be given to us (because the conditions are very strict). And of course We will continue to insist that the recycling programs work, and we will ask teachers to work more for projects and less on the book. The mother of a partner of my daughter will ask the teacher in writing that her children not write about the book, and if they do use pencil (it is complicated up to nine years, but very feasible with children from primary school). These types of actions are the germ of new initiatives that should end up being imposed in those places where they do not yet exist.
Now what I sincerely hope is that families will be able to organize ourselves to demand that the centers ask only essential materials, and take out paintings, pencils, spare parts, etc. from the closet. that we keep from other years. Why now more than ever 'reuse' will become fashionable.
Finally, although you already know: better buy these materials now in August, before they are more expensive.
