In our country, private school prices were announced in the new year and astonishing figures became the agenda. Well, a family who wants their child to get a good education needs to earn at least how much TL each month in order to send him to a private school and not go hungry?
There has been an increasing interest in private schools in our country in recent years. Parents may argue for reasons such as better education in less-person classrooms. send their children to private school they want.
In fact, it has become such that, in most scenarios, it has even become an issue where parents ‘have to prove their own competence’ rather than the quality of education. ‘We send our child to private school because we can’… Because parents who want the best for their children, have such a ‘good education’ on them. invisible printing feels. Not being able to send it to a private school feels like a deficiency, an inadequacy.
However, private school prices, like many other things, have reached astonishing levels. The figures, seen in some posts shared on social media and ranging from 200 thousand TL to 700 thousand TL, are way above what an ‘ordinary’ family can afford.
Last day, the Ministry of National Education for private schools The ceiling increase rate of 2023-2024 is 65%. as declared. This further increased the already high private school prices. Last year, this rate was 36%.
But parents who send their children to private school have a bigger problem. Also called ‘additional services’ book, clothes, food Charges for ‘services’ and ‘needs’ such as Complaints from parents are that these services have been increased by more than 200%.
The reason the news made such a noise is the private school prices circulating. However, we have seen that private schools have not yet shared their official current prices on their websites. For this reason, we have compiled the possible prices for some schools over the ceiling increase rate in the table below;
| Schools | 2022 – 2023 Education Year Fee with VAT |
With 65% Ceiling Ratio Maximum Possible Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hisar Schools | ||
| BJK Kabatas Foundation Schools |
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| Bilfen College Bahcesehir Campus |
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| Enka Schools | ||
| FMV Işık Schools Nisantasi |
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| Istanbul Male High School Students Education Foundation Schools |
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| MEF Schools | ||
| Koç Schools | ||
| Progress Foundation | ||
| Eyüboğlu Foundation Schools |
- *Your prices to show how the average line based on primary school fees, however, prices for preschool, primary, secondary and high school are different in many schools. In some schools, this difference can even be between all classes.
- *We have included 8% tuition fee VAT in the prices.
- *We did not include additional items such as meal fee, clothing fee, service and book fee in the prices.
- *Prices can be changed in installments and in advance. We are on the list installment prices we base it on.
- *There is a price difference between campuses in some schools. We have listed the campus where we bought the price.
When these prices are added to the costs of meals, clothes, books and services, which vary between 20-30 thousand TL on average, it puts a great burden on the families…
Well, if a family wants to enroll their child in a private school by saying ‘it’s okay if I’m hungry, as long as my child gets a good education’, how much should it earn at least?
In our country, the ‘hunger limit’ has been 8,130 TL in 2023… That is, approximately 370 TL below the minimum wage. A family with one child even if she wants to send her child to private school at the expense of starvation How much do you think he should be earning per month?
| Schools |
Family Must Have Minimum Monthly Income |
|---|---|
| Hisar Schools | |
| BJK Kabatas Foundation Schools |
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| Bilfen College Bahcesehir Campus |
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| Enka Schools | |
| FMV Işık Schools Nisantasi |
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| Istanbul Male High School Students Education Foundation Schools |
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| MEF Schools | |
| Koç Schools | |
| Progress Foundation | |
| Eyüboğlu Foundation Schools |
- *Prices in the list ”Monthly private school installment + Additional school services + Hunger limit amountWe calculated it as ”.
The cost of meals, books, clothes and services in schools varies quite a lot. However, in order to make an average calculation, we a fixed expense such as 5 thousand TL per month we determined. We added this figure as a simple average of the numbers we got from different schools and We kept it to a minimum…
According to 2022 data in the Republic of Turkey, 42% of the employees are on minimum wage. In other words, 42% of the country will not be able to send their only child to private school even if they live at home as two minimum wage workers.
of course In any case, it would be unreasonable to expect a family to accept to live on the border of hunger as if they had no other expenses and to give thousands of liras to schools. However, even if they accept to live on the poverty line, it is quite annoying that they have to receive an average of 25-30 thousand TL every month.
Access to equal and quality education for all students is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Education is not and should not be a commercial material in any way.
However, today’s conditions push families to go to private schools, while putting a huge burden on them. It deepens social class differences between children and families, It creates an inequality of opportunity that cannot be closed in every field from university to working life. We hope that such a big social problem can be eliminated with reasonable solutions before it moves into our future…