Do you want the good news or the bad news? [Independent.ie]
- Published: 09 August 2011
THE good news is that the cost of educating a child from primary school to third level has come down.
The bad news is that the overall sum is still considerable.
Brace yourself for the figure -- €60,000. That is the mammoth amount of money researchers at parent resource Schooldays.ie and Bank of Ireland estimate it takes to educate a child.
Last year, the same researchers put the cost at €70,000, so at least the expense of education has lessened a little.
Totting it all up like that makes the costs seem huge and must make families whose children have yet to enter on to the school system wonder how they will ever afford it.
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