Cheaper for the State as well... so what does that tell us?..... it ended up cheaper to send her to an actual fee-paying school!
I have recent experience of this. Our 12yo son is in sixth class and has been accepted for the local secondary school. This is not a fee-paying school and we were asked to pay a €250 deposit to confirm acceptance.
I wouldn't use the term 'clever' to describe it. We've paid the money to confirm the place. One friend of my son is #96 on the waiting list for a place, so they have parents in a bind.To me that sounds like a clever way of making you pay
I think part of your irritation is caused by poor wording in the article. Where it says "Last year, two schools got more than €72,000 back. A further two schools received just under €70,000. This means all these schools received donations from parents or other PAYE workers worth around €100,000", it is not referring to parents/PAYE workers worth 100K. 100K is the donation received from parents/PAYE workers - they've worked this out from the value of the tax back (if €174 tax back equates to a donation of €250, then 70K tax back equates to total donations of 100K). It would have been clearer to word it as 'received donations worth 100K from parents/PAYE workers'.
These 'voluntary donations' are getting a bit ridiculous. My daughter's school had an aggressively pursued €500 'donation' (which grossed up to €850 with the tax back) PLUS a charge of €200 for photocopying etc. So the school was getting 'fees' of over €1,000 yet it is only actual fee-paying schools which are criticised for being elitist etc. Between the not-so-voluntary contribution, the actual charge and the grinds to make up for deficiencies in teaching and teacher absenteeism, it ended up cheaper to send her to an actual fee-paying school!
I wouldn't use the term 'clever' to describe it. We've paid the money to confirm the place. One friend of my son is #96 on the waiting list for a place, so they have parents in a bind.
This story annoyed me. I have recent experience of this. Our 12yo son is in sixth class and has been accepted for the local secondary school. This is not a fee-paying school and we were asked to pay a €250 deposit to confirm acceptance. Later we received a confirmation letter, thanking us for our 'donation' and enclosing a form for the tax back scheme.
Does this mean our son is now heading for a wealthy school ? Are we wealthy ? We can't be cos we don't earn this arbitary 100K figure that gets bandied abotu as being the threshold for wealth.
And that 100K figure annoys me too. What's that based on ? How is someone on 101K more able to pay a higher rate of tax or USC than someone on 99K ? How is someone on 150K with a mortgage of 400K 'wealthier' than someone on 75K with no mortgage ?
This is just more of the sloganeering and scapegoating that passes for debate these days.
By the way, to answer your question, Health is Wealth.
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