Dear Editor,
We are a group of parents of primary school children who are angered and appalled at the huge cost of school books.
Each of us has attics full of perfectly good books which we are unable to hand down from one child to the next, as they are almost all workbooks which the children fill in, which makes it impossible to use them a second time.
I have appealed to the Minister for Education, who informed me that the ordering of books is left entirely up to the principals of each school.
Shockingly all these schools are Green Flag schools who recycle all cartons, bottles, papers, but are throwing away good books year after year.
Surely they should be encouraging children to reuse all books?
Many of us are struggling financially and feel this situation is dreadful.
We would appeal to all principals of schools to remember the severe financial hardship of many families at this time and, bearing in mind the Green Schools ethos, please, please, begin a system of reusing school books.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Finn
Carnaculla
Swinford.
