School: shock textbooks, in Sardinia another sting for families
The expense for a middle school student is about 300 euros, that for classical and scientific high schools goes up to 360 to which more than 100 stationery must be added
Families exhausted due to the high prices that the social context of Sardinia is investing. To the rise in bills, food and basic necessities is also added the shock of the purchase of books and stationery for the children-students . Problem felt above all by those single-income families who try to buffer expenses by looking at flea markets and online ones . As for notebooks, pens and pencils, the purchases of the texts are made directly from the home PC.
If, to alleviate the problem and meet families, compulsory schooling should provide for the rapid delivery of books on loan for use (at least for those entitled families who request them), many parents instead groped in uncertainty and complain. poor communication from the Institutes that have not yet provided them.
Going into detail, it is evident that the expenditure to be incurred for education is one of the items that have the greatest impact on family budgets. For a middle school student, the cost of purchasing textbooks is around 300 euros , with an increase of around 5 euros compared to 2021. The most expensive books are those of Music Education, 37 euros and 50 cents, Art and Image records for 30 euros and 40 , Mathematics 26 and 50, Italian grammar and anthology respectively 26, 70 and 27 euros and 50 each. . The technology text and those in English and French weigh on the expenditure for 25 and 90 euros, with 22.50 the first and 17.70 for the transalpine.
The expense for a high school student rises considerably with an average of 360 euros for the first year students of the Scientific and Classic. The text adopted (the variation is minimal depending on the qualifications) for the drawing (scientific high school) costs 26.30, that of physics 20, while it reaches 29.50 for English , over 50 euros for the three texts of Italian, 36 euros for Latin (at the Scientific), almost 60 euros for the three Greek texts of the Classical , 50 euros for the texts of mathematics and algebra , 36.50 for History of Art, 40 for Chemistry and Astronomical Geography , 23 euros and 20cent for physical education and 30 for History and geography. Total 363 euros for the Liceo Scientifico and 361 for the Classic .
To these must be added for the first classes, a one-off cost, 71 euros for the Latin vocabulary for the scientific high schools and 90 for the Greek vocabulary for the classical high schools , which must buy both.
The average for the expenditure of textbooks in Cagliari (carried out on high schools and high schools in the city) is about 350 euros . It is logical that single-income families turn to the second-hand market.
But that's not all . We also need notebooks, pens, pencils and brackets, compasses, cases and bags . Ten lined notebooks cost 12 euros and 50 cents, it takes 7 euros for an A4 album, 10 for the diary, 17 euros for the plastic case for squares and oversized drawing sheets, another 10 euros for the case, another 15 euro for markers and colors. In short, in addition to the textbooks, another 100/120 euro of stationery is needed (not designer and excluding the backpack).
If, however, the prices of books have remained practically unchanged since the school year 2020/21, in a period of economic and social crisis like the one the country is going through, education remains a consistent item in the budget of family management, especially in single-income families. And to save money, online and the local market are the most popular tools .
