As the school door was closed for more than two months under the influence of Corona 19, the controversy emerged when the first year high school student who was excluded from free education paid nearly 2 million won in education expenses.

According to the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education, 47,000 800 high school students in the second to third grades receive free education support this year.

Included in the free education is the entrance fee, tuition fee, school operation support fee, and textbook fee, which is more than 1.6 million won per person per year.

However, high school first graders can receive the support from next year in accordance with the Ministry of Education's sequential free education expansion policy.

This is the same across the country.

In the case of Incheon, entrance fees and textbooks are provided at a high level for free, but tuition and school management support fees are due until this year.

The tuition fee, which is divided into four quarterly quarters, varies slightly depending on the location in which the school is located, but is usually a total of 1.4 million won, 350,000 won at a time.

The school administration support fee, which is paid four times a year, is an average of 72,000 won at a time.

Because of this, high school students are receiving complaints from parents because they have to pay more than 1.6 million won in education even if they take online classes just like other grades this year.

On the bulletin board of the National Petition at the Blue House, a post titled 'I would recommend a tuition reduction for the first grade of high school' was posted, and 6,329 people agreed as of 10:30 am today (12th).

The petitioner, who said that he had high school students and college students, argued, "University students can't help it because they manage tuition at university, but high school students are different." .

There have been reports that it is not suitable for equity to pay a high tuition fee of 10,000 in the mamma cafe in Incheon.

One netizen complained, 'I paid more than 400,000 won in February and I couldn't go to school once, and the tuition payment date is approaching.'

Another netizen said, `` It wasn't even possible to run the school because of the Corona 19 incident, but I can't make a payment for the operating expenses. ''

An official of the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education explained, "In accordance with the policy of the Ministry of Education, it is unlikely that separate support will be difficult because high school 1 will be included in the free education starting next year."

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