{"id":295,"date":"2011-08-24T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/clothing-and-equipment-no-reduction-evident-says-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:26:10","slug":"clothing-and-equipment-no-reduction-evident-says-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/clothing-and-equipment-no-reduction-evident-says-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothing and equipment no reduction evident says Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clothing and equipment no reduction evident\u00a0says Crowe<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/span>, has said that with the new school term fast approaching the Government is failing parents who are facing excessive bills for uniforms,books and other equipment. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Crowe<\/span> said:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt a meeting of the Oireachtas Education Committee in July, Minister Quinn, TD, said that he would exam the viability of introducing book-lending schemes and cheaper uniforms in a bid to drive school costs down for parents.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMinister Quinn met with the St Vincent de Paul charity and the National Parents Council, two organisations that deal with parents who are struggling to equip and cloth their children for school. Current estimates put the costs at almost \u20ac600 when a child is to attend Secondary school, a significant amount of money in these cash strapped times.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAdded to this burden are the voluntary fees parents are asked to pay, annual photocopying costs ranging between \u20ac40 and \u20ac80, and \u20ac100 to \u20ac300 for extra-curricular activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There is no doubt that with the implementation of practical measures the financial burden being placed on parents can be eased.\u00a0The frequent changes of books on the curriculum, particularly the publication of revised editions, is a way of allowing publishers to continue to\u00a0exploit the system. <\/span><\/p>\n

The purchasing of school uniforms is also an issue that Minister Quinn promised to address, particularly when schools advise parents they can only buy from specific outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most parents have now bought the uniforms and no real change has been evident this year.<\/p>\n

The availability of school crests to parents doesn’t seem to have happened in the majority of schools.<\/p>\n

Many parents struggling with costs are asking what\u00a0was the point \u00a0if any, ofthe \u00a0Ministers initiative<\/p>\n

It is increasingly clear that the Minister\u00a0 must do more than pay lip service to this issue and\u00a0 should implement practical measures that will help reduce the unacceptable high costs being faced by families whose children\u00a0will be soon\u00a0attending school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clothing and equipment no reduction evident\u00a0says Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe, has said that with the new school term fast approaching the Government is failing parents who are facing excessive bills for uniforms,books and other equipment. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cAt a meeting of the Oireachtas Education Committee in July, Minister Quinn, TD, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}