How much do you pay for high school?

[Red Stranger]

How much do you (or your parents) pay for your high school education per year? Excluding uniforms or equipments for extra cirricular activities?

 

[Shaihulud]

Less than $200 i think , it has been many years.

 

[GenMarshall]

Possibly less than $200 since I went to a public school and funding for that comes out of the tax payers. Also, my high school never had school uniforms .

 

[Truronian]

About $20 a term. I went to a private school, but on a scholarship

 

[Shaihulud]

Curiously Red Stranger has not voted despite the fact that he initiated this poll.

 

[The Yankee]

When I went to high school, I paid zero directly. Indirectly for meals (either in the school or from a deli) or extra transit expenses while on the football team (which were outside the usual Free Student MetroCard times). Additonally there was the football camp in the summer, since I didn't want to be bothered with selling candy from a box or trying to get people to pay a certain amount of money for every pound I bench-pressed. And a few times for reduced price copies of the New York Times. So a couple hundred dollars at most if indirect expenses were counted.

 

[The Yankee]

Curiously Red Stranger has not voted despite the fact that he initiated this poll.

How do you know? It's not a public poll.

 

[Grisu]

nothing, public schooling all the way

 

[Paalikles]

Nada in terms of school fees. Only material costs (books, equipment etc). Which I of course did not pay myself.

But Scandinavia is quite different from the US when it comes to schooling.

There are a few private alternatives to public schools, but they are generally not worth it.

 

[The Yankee]

A more interesting question might be how much we pay for college/post-secondary school, as there seems to be quite a few European countries that offer it for free and perhaps some Americans and others that pay less due to scholarships and grand money (and loans, if you want to say how much you pay right now).

I've always wondered what gains there would be in a private high school. I suppose there is a good chance they would be better than many public schools in the immediate area, but that alone does not guarantee future success as much as some colleges might, I would believe. Even so, it would all boil down to what the student gets out of it and how much they'll apply themselves to the studies and outside studies if/when needed.

Of course, given that I had a horrible time in my high school due to their administration, I could be wrong.

 

[silver 2039]

4 lakhs a year. I'm not sure how much that is in dollars. Thats just the school fees uniform, food, field trip all cost extra so maybe another Rs 50,000

 

[Paalikles]

A more interesting question might be how much we pay for college/post-secondary school, as there seems to be quite a few European countries that offer it for free and perhaps some Americans and others that pay less due to scholarships and grand money (and loans, if you want to say how much you pay right now).

I've always wondered what gains there would be in a private high school. I suppose there is a good chance they would be better than many public schools in the immediate area, but that alone does not guarantee future success as much as some colleges might, I would believe. Even so, it would all boil down to what the student gets out of it and how much they'll apply themselves to the studies and outside studies if/when needed.

Of course, given that I had a horrible time in my high school due to their administration, I could be wrong.

My university costs about 600 NOK per semester (1USD=aproximately 7 NOK)
I have not had a scholarship in the way that works in the US.
I did have a student loan - which I kept because during my years @ the university, I pay no interest. So I placed all of that in savings instead, and actually earned a lot on that. Part of the loan is converted to scholarship when I pass my exams - so to that extent I received a governmental aid for my studies - though I could easily have finished my degree without that kind of support.

This cost include 100NOK worth of fees for printing/copying, so many claim that universities in Norway are free.
Rest of the sum goes to the Foundation for student life in Oslo

 

[The Last Conformist]

I thought secondary education was free in most of the West.

 

[Verbose]

Nuffin'.

Sweden: Free education. In university you tend to buy your own books, but they are available in the library, so should you want/need to you can pursue your studies for free, even if it's a bit inconvenient. No fees otherwise.

And you get to borrow money for living expenses from the state at favourable terms to finance your studies as well (though if truth be told the terms have become continously less favourable in the last 20 years).

 

[aaglo]

High school is free here in Finland. And so is college. And university.

 

[Grisu]

college/commercial school was free too. university cost 600CHF / semester (approx. USD 500).

you usually get a scholarship from the state that was around CHF 7000 / year in my case.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

Crazy poll options. When I was in school my parents paid taxes like anyone else, but didn't pay any other fees, so $0 except for normal taxes. Heck, they never even owned a home (though obviously rents indirectly support property tax). Public all the way. Heck, they didn't even make enough to hit the bottom poll options.

They also didn't pay for my college (except via taxes). Gov't and private groups did that through a nice big scholarship and a few smaller additional ones. Public school again, though my scholarships would have covered a good private school, I didn't want to be in school with 'them'.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I went to a state school, so my parents never payed anything.

 

[azzaman333]

If i include my brother (also at secondary school), my dad pays about $15,000 per year. If i include my sister (at primary school), $15,000-15,200 per year. I voted $8,000-$20,000, since it was close enough.

(and i wanted to be different )

EDIT: My brother and i go to a private school, my sister goes to a public school

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

In Sweden it is free and no one here goes to private schools.