“3,400 private school students in tuition arrears”
Summary: According to this article, parents of over 3400 private middle and high school students have not paid their tuition fees, because of the economical difficulties. Therefore, private schools pressure parents to pay the fees or children are forced to quit the school. In the survey, 3208 high school students and 208 middle school students had failed to pay tuition fees. The union said the number of parents who can’t pay tuition fees will increase because of the financial crisis and lower incomes.
Questions:
l Do you think Japanese school tuition fees expensive?
l If you were in financial crisis situation and asked to quit college, what would you do?
l What should private schools do to decrease these students?
Words:
l Tuition: the money you pay for being taught at a school or college.
l Arrear: money that you owe someone because regular payments such as rent have not been paid at the right time.
l Nationwide: happening or existing in every part of the country.
l Withdraw: to stop taking part in an activity, belonging to an organization etc... or to make someone stop doing this.
l Crisis: a very bad or dangerous situation that might get worse, especially in politics or economics.
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