Aichi Private Kindergarten Half to increase tuition fees, etc. Oct. 2 19:42

From this month, free education for preschool education will start, but from Aichi Prefecture, we learned that half of private kindergartens in Aichi Prefecture will raise tuition fees from this year to the next year.

Free childcare and childcare that starts this month in line with the increase in consumption tax is for all children aged 3 to 5 who go to kindergartens and licensed nurseries, and for children aged 0 to 2 years who are tax-exempt. Applies to children up to.

Among these, private kindergarten that has its own usage fee will be free up to 25,700 yen per month.

Under these circumstances, I learned from interviews in Aichi Prefecture that tuition fees and admission fees will be raised from this year to next year in 177 of the 360 ​​private kindergartens in the prefecture.

Reasons include improving teachers' treatment, responding to aging equipment, and raising the consumption tax rate.

Private kindergartens have their own tuition fees, and there are many cases in which the burden on parents does not increase as gratis starts.

About the price increase Aichi Prefecture has said, “Reports for price increases have increased from the previous year, and we have confirmed how to avoid raising the piggyback price in line with the free of charge.

Parents “No specific explanation”

One of the parents who sent children to a kindergarten in Nagoya City, where tuition fees will be raised next month, wonders if there is no specific explanation from the garden about the reason for raising the price, and it may be a piggyback raising due to free Hugging

According to parents, a private kindergarten in Nagoya city where children attend has been distributed a document that the tuition fee will be raised to 25700 yen, the upper limit of the gratification, from the beginning of October last month.

Up to now, parents paid 23700 yen per month, including tuition fees and school lunch fees, but the school fees that are not eligible for gratis were shown as 4500 yen from October, so the tuition fee is actually 6500 yen Price increases.

When parents asked the kindergarten director and the director about the reason for the price increase, there was no specific explanation such as "I want the kindergarten to use it."

The guardian said, “There is no specific explanation on how to use the raised money for children, and I think that it is a piggyback raising that will be free of charge. The tuition will be free of charge. "It's a nice system to reduce the burden on households, but if the tax is used to support the management of kindergarten, it's out of the original meaning."

The kindergarten director said to the interview, “There is a cost to replace aging equipment, and raising the price at the time of gratification does not increase the burden on parents, so what parents care about. I do n’t know if it ’s there. ”