Pricewatch: From books to uniforms, and food to schoolbags, here are a few ideas for keeping costs down this coming sc
Spare a thought for the tens of thousands of teenagers who are waiting for their results to arrive on August 25th. There will be good news for many and not such good news for some. But they will all have to put up with unwanted advice from old people like Pricewatch who will be taking to social media to remind them that the results will not define them and the nightmares will eventually pass. Such proclamations, while true, are likely to fall on deaf ears.
Students sitting the Leaving Certificate exams at Mount Anville Secondary School, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish TimesYou might have moaned about the endless days of the summer holidays in June and July and August, but you will miss them when they are gone and each week starts with a frantic morning dash involving feedings, dressing and transporting children while making sure they have their tin whistles, hurls, packed lunches and gear. The stress of it all would break most of us.
Make sure to buy uniforms in slightly bigger sizes than needed. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times“voluntary” is usually defined as something which is “done, made, brought about, undertaken of one’s own accord or by free choice”. This is a definition many of the State’s schools would do well to learn off by heart, as they seem to have developed something of a blind spot when it comes to this word.
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