The cost of education continues to rise, irrespective of the schooling choices families make. New estimates state that parents could spend more than $5,800 a year sending their teenager to a Queensland state high school and the bill jumps to about $17,000 a year for private high schooling. Primary school is not too much cheaper.
Michelle Hunder from ASG said estimates were calculated based on surveying parents of 2400 preschool to high-school-aged children around Australia. Queensland Council of Parents and Citizens Associations president Margaret Black said it could cost as little as $500 a year to send a child to a state high, depending on the subject choices made by students, and that it was added extras like optional overseas trips that pushed the price up.
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