Hip … hip … horay … that’s what we hear from our children. It’s about long holiday, specially for our childrens who still study. They are so longing for the long holiday in mid June until mid July. What a lovely moment it’s going to be, between parents and their children.
But, you know what, on the contrary, as their parents, we will be busy in many things due to preparation of their beginning school. Like buying new school uniform, new school books with many school tool equipments. And of course, we have to add more budget for this.
When we talk about school books, actually, we feel confused and sad. How come, in the middle of economic crisis, we still have to buy new school books every year when our children get to start their school again. Cause every year, the lesson books are always changed. Of course, we can calculate the money around Rp 200.000 – 600.000 per child, only for the school books. Unfortunately, all the books can’t be used anymore for the next year school period on the same grade. It means, it will be thrown away and useless. it’s not wise policy in this economic crisis.
If we look, maybe around 15 years back, we still used the same lesson books that was used last year, so they could use the same books from their brother or sister, or other choice, borrowed from other friend, or even borrowed from their school. It happened and decreased many school costs. Then, why our government don’t use the same education method nowadays? Won’t it help many people in the middle to lower level of life? So, no more lesson books become rubbishs.
So, hopefully, our next new president can do the right education policy, so we can use the same lesson books and can decrease the book cost and help many people in this economic crisis. This is the right time.