Families spend more on Back to School – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The Portuguese families will spend more money this year with the return to school, according to a survey that points to an average expenditure of 528 euros including books and other materials for the day to day of school. There are more than 19 euros last year, according to the Study on the Portuguese Purchase Intentions in the Back to School 2015 , which conducted telephone interviews across the country.

                     

                         Less than a month of the start of another school year, families return to calcorrear bookstores and supermarkets in search of the best campaigns and school supplies discounts. Despite the promotions, the bill will go up and the older are the most expensive students get the books: in the 1st cycle compulsory textbooks, without activity books, prowl, according to the study, 25 euros, but the secondary easily surpass the 200 euros.

In addition to the manuals, the purchases will fall primarily on clothing and footwear (85%), education expenses (78%) and sporting goods (73%), the study they were made 600 interviews but considered the responses of only 238 people, because they were who had school-age children or who was studying itself.

The way that many families (51%) are for able to make ends meet is spreading purchases, buying textbooks at a different time from the remaining material.

Despite the high bill, the majority of respondents (94%) want the kids to have new but already manuals you begin to notice an increase in people frown upon the second-hand books: compared to last year, there has been a 33% increase in people opting for used textbooks, some borrow to family or friends while others resort to “shops” second hand, still shows the study by Cetelem Observer.

complaint to the Ombudsman in September
On the Internet, there are sites sales and free trade, but also physical spaces where families can go, such as those supported by the “Movement for Reuse of school books.”

This movement releases on your page online – www.reutilizar.org – about 200 bring banks and free sharing of textbooks across the country that have already led to thousands of families save on buying stuff

On. Lusa, the founder of the movement, Henrique Cunha, lamented the constant changes of curricular goals and textbooks by schools that hinder their reuse, opposing the legislation establishing a term of six years of life for the books.

The Movement has therefore decided to launch in early summer one claims collection campaign and reports of cases where parents consider that there was or is there some kind of “barriers to re-use manual” that will get over to Justice provider to September 15

Another of the questions asked to the respondents in the study during the month of May was intended to give semanada the children and what values:. on average, families give 20 euros for the children spend in school period (three more than last year), but 31% of respondents said that the maximum semanada would be 10 euros.