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Post by melanell on Jul 25, 2014 18:18:39 GMT
I forgot, they do charge you for the official school planner in middle school. (The PTA pays for them in elementary school.)
That's during the first week of school, and it's $6 if you choose to buy it. We do buy it, so that is one thing we'll pay straight to the school.
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2014 18:21:25 GMT
$150 per kid for the public magnet school my kids attend.
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Post by gina on Jul 25, 2014 18:22:21 GMT
No fees here.
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Post by anxiousmom on Jul 25, 2014 18:34:10 GMT
Registration Fee: $135 ($100 if paid before August 8th) MANDATORY iPad: Supply your own or rent one from the school for $189/year Curriculum Fee for the iPad: $85 (this replace the $125 text book rental fee the sophomore, juniors and seniors will continue to pay) Once we added in a $45 yearbook, approved lock for his locker and a PE uniform, we just cut a check to the school district for $498. No fees here beyond the Ipad rental, which is $30. Oh, if the boy wants a locker, I think it is $3. He is at a charter school, and they pretty much cover the costs for everything, including the costs for dual enrollment classes/books at the college, all the AP costs (exam fee,) for one SAT or ACT test fee, and for one application fee for those applying to college(s).
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Post by iluvpink on Jul 25, 2014 18:40:58 GMT
We don't have registration fees in public schools here. At least we don't in our district and I've never heard anyone in other districts mention it. I've only ever heard of it in online forums. Or for college of course.
ETA-there are sports fees. DD is going into high school and just did track in 8th grade. I can't remember how much it was even though that was just a few months ago lol.
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Post by theboydbunch on Jul 26, 2014 23:11:58 GMT
Fees for public school? Never heard of it! Our county's high school has issued a "pay to play" for sports, which is $50 per sport. This is all and it's been a big controversy since.
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Post by kate on Jul 27, 2014 0:02:17 GMT
No fees, but the tuition would give you altitude sickness.
For public school, I don't really know - I heard of a job opening for a music teacher that was "fully funded by the PTA" at a public school. I wonder how they do that - by fees? Voluntary donations? A grant of some kind?
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Post by Anita on Jul 27, 2014 0:51:23 GMT
$80 registration fee, $50 yearbook fee, and $150 in band fees. Expensive day.
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Post by anxiousmom on Jul 27, 2014 0:53:51 GMT
For those of you who have children in public schools and have to pay fees, what happens to the kids whose parents can not afford the fees? How is that handled?
It seems like it would be violating the "free education" thing and there are people who might have a problem with that?
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Post by bluepoprocks on Jul 27, 2014 1:03:08 GMT
We never had fees except for extra activities in the public school.
Our boys are in Catholic school now so we have supply fees of about $35 to $45 plus a list of supplies we have to provide, the usual stuff like pencils and note books but also tissues, paper towels, hand sanitizer etc... It varies by teacher. Plus tuition of course. You also have to pay for extra activities.
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Post by roxley on Jul 27, 2014 1:04:06 GMT
Those who qualify for free lunch, also do not pay fees. My kids are between $100 and $200 a year K-12. Each subject has a book fee and any associated materials fee. It just depends on your classes.
i am in Indiana.
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Post by fkawitchypea on Jul 27, 2014 1:04:39 GMT
I'm in New York and we don't have to pay anything.
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Post by ceepea on Jul 27, 2014 1:39:56 GMT
I have to pay $75 in lab fees for my senior. The senior picture packages start at $290.00 and go to $999.00!!!! I think that is crazy expensive. If you want a la carte pictures they are 50.00 a print. Does that sound right to anyone?
Oops, didn't mean to try and highjack your thread. I will remove the last sentence it you want.
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Post by scrappinmama on Jul 27, 2014 1:48:04 GMT
When we lived in Califormia, we didn't even have to buy pencils. In Kansas, we by all school supplies, plus registration fees. $265 for my high schooler and $145 for my middle schooler. I will gladly pay. The schools are so much better here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 1:57:13 GMT
DGS and DGD don't have educational fees, per se, but do have to pay a book deposit if they want textbooks to take home. When the books are returned at the end of the year they get the deposit back. They do, however, both have marching band fees (uniform, music, transportation, etc) of $90 each. I don't consider extra curricular activity fees and things like year book costs to be registration fees, though.
All kids are entitled to a free education.
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Post by salem on Jul 27, 2014 2:07:22 GMT
No fees here. I have kids in both elementary and middle school. I don't believe there are fees of any kind for the high school, but we still have a couple years to go before freshman year.
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Post by Amelia Bedelia on Jul 27, 2014 2:14:36 GMT
DD1 will start 7th grade in 3 weeks and there are no fees. There's a mandatory campig trip in September that has a voluntary fee of $20 or $25 but they can't require parents to pay for that. They don't even require a tech fee or deposit for the kids' laptops.
I don't know how sports will work. They're only offering cross country, badminton and volleyball. I can't imagine the fees will be steep because they are adamant about not turning away kids who can't afford to participate.
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Post by mdoc on Jul 27, 2014 2:59:57 GMT
My youngest is going into 9th grade. The registration fee is $200. Textbook rental is $230. Bus transportation is $377. Sports are $205 each. There are a bunch of other fees (some optional, like yearbook, school directory, activities fees, music participation, etc.) where they nickel and dime us to death. This is public school in Illinois. And the legality of all these fees (for compulsory "free" public education) has been litigated in this state and upheld.
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Post by Memo on Jul 27, 2014 3:13:14 GMT
My middle school student doesn't have fees. I'm sure he'll have sort of supply list, though. My high school student just registered and he had to pay: $50 music fee for band (paid to the school) $10 music free for steel drums (paid to the school) $50 for the yearbook.
Still have to pay the following: $25 for marching shoes $150 band operation fee $500 for the Disneyland fee (due by February 1st)
This doesn't even count what we have to spend on our oldest for his first year of college, yikes!
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Post by craftygamer on Jul 27, 2014 3:21:16 GMT
Wow, I'm amazed at the concept of paying to go to public school. I guess I should be grateful it hasn't come to that here. My DS is going into middle school, and they are asking each student to pay $10 - covers the cost of school ID, agenda and locker lock. I also have a page, front and back with two columns on each side, of school supplies to buy. Then, of course, the cost of gym clothes. But, I'm pretty sure it's all cheaper than most of these fees some of you are paying. A question about that, though. What happens if a family cannot afford it? Do they just get to opt out? I'd be pretty pissed if I had to pay that much if not everyone does.
ETA: I also have to pay $50/month for the rent-to-own of a band instrument.
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Post by chaosisapony on Jul 27, 2014 3:29:38 GMT
in California, it is illegal to require fees for education. sports and yearbooks and such are outside that rule. never paid anything other than gym clothes...and there was support for low income families. get the law changed... Yep. I'd never heard of any of this stuff until I started hanging out on Two Peas. The concept is completely foreign to me. How can education still be considered "free" if someone has to fork over hundreds of dollars for their kids to go to school. That does not make sense to me.
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Post by craftygamer on Jul 27, 2014 3:29:44 GMT
FWIW, I would rather pay a book rental fee than deal with the common core nonsense going on here. From what was explained to me, there aren't any actual textbooks, the students and teachers kinda make them up as they go. Huh? Each core subject requires students to have a 5-subject notebook. And, from what I understand, this will serve as the textbook where they will keep all of their notes and handouts. It really makes no sense to me. They should just have textbooks.
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Post by roxley on Jul 27, 2014 3:29:46 GMT
Wow, I'm amazed at the concept of paying to go to public school. I guess I should be grateful it hasn't come to that here. My DS is going into middle school, and they are asking each student to pay $10 - covers the cost of school ID, agenda and locker lock. I also have a page, front and back with two columns on each side, of school supplies to buy. Then, of course, the cost of gym clothes. But, I'm pretty sure it's all cheaper than most of these fees some of you are paying. A question about that, though. What happens if a family cannot afford it? Do they just get to opt out? I'd be pretty pissed if I had to pay that much if not everyone does. ETA: I also have to pay $50/month for the rent-to-own of a band instrument. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk in our system, if you are free lunch, you don't pay fees. If you do owe and don't pay, they hold the report card. (This isn't much of a consequence since grades are on-line). I believe it can go to collections. I worked in a school for 14 years, and believe we threatened, but never actually sent anyone to collections. Usually those who didn't pay were divorced parents who each thought it was the others responsibility.
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Post by chaosisapony on Jul 27, 2014 4:31:00 GMT
FWIW, I would rather pay a book rental fee than deal with the common core nonsense going on here. From what was explained to me, there aren't any actual textbooks, the students and teachers kinda make them up as they go. Huh? Each core subject requires students to have a 5-subject notebook. And, from what I understand, this will serve as the textbook where they will keep all of their notes and handouts. It really makes no sense to me. They should just have textbooks. I don't know anything about common core but I can tell you that in all of my schooling we rarely used the textbooks that were given to us. They were often 10-12 years out of date and so we hauled them to class but the teachers just had us use notebooks and take notes off the board or whatever. That is what we used to do homework and study. My parents bought me 3 or 4 of those Five Star 5 subject notebooks each year and they were perfect because they had folders in them to hold the handouts for each class. The textbooks themselves might have only been opened 3 or 4 times per year in high school and not at all in middle school. My high school Spanish book was by far the most ridiculous thing you'd ever seen. They were from 1982 (it was 2001 when I took Spanish) and were so worn and messed up that the covers were falling off, pages had been ripped out, etc. The illustrations and explanations of "modern" Spanish casual language were absolutely laughable.
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Post by lippymans on Jul 27, 2014 5:38:50 GMT
It will be $65 for my middle school child. That doesn't include a year book, P.E. clothes, or anything extra. This also doesn't include any supplies. Here in Utah they aren't allowed to charge fees for K-6th. I am not sure what a high school registration fee is as my kids aren't that old.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 5:49:33 GMT
Fees for public school? Never heard of it! I've heard of it, but have never experienced it. My 'public school' kids are 28 & 30 and I homeschool my youngest ones. The idea of paying fees for busses, books and lunch monitoring in public school befuddles me. That's what our property and other taxes are intended for. L
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Post by Merge on Jul 27, 2014 13:21:04 GMT
The fees at our school are magnet fees. $75 per kid per magnet area, generally two areas per kid. It's a middle school for the performing and visual arts. My older daughter does theater and broadcast journalism; the younger one is starting this fall in choir and orchestra. The fees help defray the extra expense associated with running these programs at a very high level. The kids have to audition for acceptance and no one who is accepted is turned away for inability to pay. They either work out a payment plan, reduce the fees or waive them entirely.
I have no problem with this - the magnet system in our district is frankly the reason people like us (educated, middle class) keep their kids in this large urban district. It's well worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 13:37:56 GMT
No fees, but I will pay a tech fee when my daughter hits middle school for her Google Chromebook.
Our property taxes are outrageous, though.
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Post by rtwig on Jul 27, 2014 14:01:29 GMT
From the website of our local schools.
2014-2015 Student Fees
Textbook / Materials Fee Grades Pre K - 3 $47.00 Grades 4 - 6 $52.00 Grades 7-8 $67.00 Grades 9 - 12 $72.00
Drivers Education Fee Behind the Wheel & Materials $50.00
Parking Fee $60.00
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 14:02:11 GMT
DS, 8th grade: $400, which includes $150 bus fee, but it does not include extra curriculars, year book, required paperback books (this is new this year for the junior high, so I have no clue how much that will be)
DD, Sophomore: $650 so far (includes yearbook and $350 behind-the-wheel fee which we could choose to do thru the school or outside company, but we're told the fee's the same for either). This does not include extra curriculars, required paperback books, or gym clothes/lock because she already has them.
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