Kyoiku Hi Hasan (Shodensha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] The middle class is in danger! Parents falling into education poverty. College tuition is skyrocketing. With the widening economic disparity, it is almost impossible for parents to cover their own expenses, and many students rely on scholarships. However, as in the past, not nearly all college graduates are able to find full-time employment. There is no end to the number of cases in which students go bankrupt because they fail to repay their loans. Moreover, scholarship bankruptcies are serious because the chain of events extends to parents and relatives who serve as guarantors. In addition to universities, the cost of education is rising rapidly, including private elementary, junior high, and senior high schools, as well as cram schools for higher education. It is not unusual for the total cost of education to be as much as 30 million yen. In this age of buying education with money, which is said to be the reproduction of inequality, how should we deal with the cost of education?

中流が危ない!教育費貧乏に陥る親たち。大学の学費が高騰している。経済格差が広がる中、親が自費で賄うのはほぼ不可能で、多くの学生が奨学金に頼ることになる。しかし、かつてのように大卒のほぼ全員が正社員として就職できるわけでもない。返済が滞り自己破産に至るケースも後をたたないのだ。その上、奨学金破産は保証人となった親や親族にまで連鎖が起こるから深刻である。また、大学だけではなく私立の小・中・高、それに伴う進学塾など、教育費はうなぎのぼりだ。トータルの教育費が3000万円もかかるケースも珍しくない。学歴をお金で買う時代→格差の再生産とも言われている現代で、われわれは教育費にどう立ち向かうべきか。