Has anyone else's school fees gone up for next year?
 

Coz my kids have! gutted :(
Last year we payed $5000 for my pre primary son and year 1 was the same fees, kindy was only $2250. But we just got the invoice and they have gone up to $5600 for my son and $3000 for my daughter!!

The joys of a student visa eh!

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Ours are going up by 6% for private schooling.

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OMG! and there was me complaining to my mother about my son starting state high school and so far it has cost me $200 in books another $200 in hire of text books and about $200 in school uniform! and thats before I get the "voluntary" contribution and school trips!

Methinks I have gotten off lightly! :eek:

Em x

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Ours went up 28%:ohmy:

But class sizes have dropped 41%

Corelation?

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Gosh, that's cheap for international student fees! ACT and NSW are more than that for school age kids. At least you picked a good state!

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That is light:D my 2 are going to State and subject fees for grade 10 are $480plus book hire of $300, the uniform changes in grade 10 just slightly so you have to buy it all again:sneaky: and why is a white shirt that the sun goes staight through:curse: $45 . Thats about a $1000 for him.

Then theres the grade 8 one which is not that much less.

But hold on:D its australia so we have a rebate/bonus/handout:blink:, I dont think its means tested so some of the books might be a tax deduction.

IME school fees and medical insurance things go up each year, seems a standard policy.

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Independent school fees in will be going up substantially over the next few years to pay for teacher's pay rises. State teachers just got 21% over 3 years. Private schools have been given similar amounts. Also, income from investments - a big source of income for private schools- has been hit massively.

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That's 6.56% per year, similar to the 6% that our Independent school fees are going up by in 2009.

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I was told to hold onto all receipts as they are tax deductable...:confused:

Oh well.. will sort it all out next August no doubt!

Em x

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That is in relation to the Education Tax Refund

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ABC Diamond how does that work??? I mean I get it... but as a refund how does it work - will i say get back $1125 if i spend the maximum??? or how does it work? sorry i havent done a tax refund before.

Am getting scared now about school fee rises... my daughter goes to catholic secondary, last year fees were $3600 plus $1100 laptop hire... i just got knocked back on a fees reduction and will just die if there is too much of an increase.... I guess the bill will arrive any day now.

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If you have only one child in Secondary, and you spend at least $1,500 on allowable costs, then you can claim back 50% of what you have spent, up to the maximum limits of $750 for the secondary school child.

If you spend say $1,000 then you get back 50% of what you have spent, ie: $500.

If you spend $2,000, you get back $750 (50% of the $1,500), but carry the excess $500 over to next year.


You pay $1,100 for laptop hire ?? !! You can buy one for that...

Your fees also seem high for a Catholic school ? Which one is it ?

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Actually the $1100 for the laptop is over two years -silly me... St Mary's Star of the Sea is the school and yes more expensive compared to the co-ed catholic school in the other direction... but I'm happy with it and it was my old school - in the old days i think my mum paid around $300 per term or something silly - how times have changed but then facilities are second to none so can't complain... just hope they dont increase too much!

Thanks for the tax info - i wasnt sure if you would just get the tax back paid or if you got the lot back (50%). I also think you can carry over any unused portion over to put towards next years ed tax relief... What i might do is buy a new computer at some stage just before i do tax.

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I need to check with accountant this year but am almost certain we get no relief on education costs and this year we have paid near on $15k in fees alone.

We paid $3500 for DS laptop last year - rip-off big time - but you have no choice! (Does include tech support and a bit of software and is used for 3 years).

We pay $2750 for one child in local Catholic primary. We are in a "rich" (hah) area so have to subsidise other "poorer" schools. Joke! In the UK we used to pay £39 for 3 children at local Catholic primary and IMHO it provided a superior education to what is offered here.

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Hiya,

How many days/hours at kindy is that, even at $3000 it seems cheap?

I've got Logan at the cheapest I could find other than C&K and it is $8ph. At the moment she is only going 9 hours per week (3 hours/3 mornings $72) which would work out at over $3500 for the year.

Also I thought prep through primary school was $8000 per yer?

Cheers
Mandy