School supplies slightly up

THE cost of equipping a child to start secondary school is slightly up this year at €175.33, according to the association Familles de France. The body, which carries out a study before the rentrée (return to school) each year, said this is 0.63% more than last year. Its president, described this as a “slightly painful” for families, after the government promised there would be no rise at all. This follows two years of significant drops in the price in 2008 and 2009.

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