Parents turning to online communities in effort to cut back school costs

Debbie Doyle, a mother to school children, started a Facebook group called “School Uniforms and Books North Dublin” to enable parents to swap or buy uniforms. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish TimesBefore her three children have even walked through their schools’ gates next week, Debbie Doyle from Artane in Dublin 5 will have spent €1,150 on their uniforms, books and materials.

Ms Doyle explained that she has always passed on her family’s items to friends and neighbours, and vice versa, so it made sense to set up a designated Facebook group for school related items. Ms Doyle said that though she got her 13-year-old son’s books through his school’s book rental scheme for €80, her other son’s fifth year books had to be bought, and it was soul destroying to see how quickly editions change.

“Both of my daughters have picked exactly the same subjects, and I now have two sets of identical books, unopened, because they had different e-codes in them. It’s absolutely nuts. “If a uniform went to a recycling centre it would never be given to the right school, and a lot of schools don’t want to take them in. I wanted to give my uniforms to someone who would use them,” she adds.

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