Not all families can afford to rent textbooks for their children

As in previous years, the only primary school pupils receiving textbooks free of charge. High school students will have their rent or buy. This year, the most expensive are the sets of textbooks for 6, 11 and 12, as most of them new. Cheapest – textbooks for 7th, 8th and 9th grade, because this is the last year of their use. Victor Trush Placinta from the village – retired. Together with his wife they care about two granddaughters, who go to school. Old people say that the family budget does not allow them to rent books for both girls. Director of School trushenskoy Nelly Apostle says in this situation, there are many families. The special commission shall consider each case individually and decide which students receive free textbooks. "The first teachers' meeting, we select the children and then makes a request to the local administration and аск for help in solving problems," – she said. Representatives of the Ministry of Education said that the agency can not afford to provide free textbooks to all students. In addition, according to minprosvete, rent textbooks makes students more accountable. "There are countries with high human development, which use the textbook rental scheme. This contributes to a sense of responsibility as well as new textbooks, and are valuable, "- said the head of the fund to ensure that textbooks Gyrnets George. The Ministry of Education spends about 30 million lei for the publication of textbooks that are used for five years, after which they were republished.