{"id":3663,"date":"2010-02-25T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2010-02-25T18:45:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:45:43","slug":"repostpaying-for-school-on-2-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/25\/repostpaying-for-school-on-2-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Paying for school on $2 a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Why on earth would a poor family just getting by on the meager wages they earned fishing or pulling rickshaws choose to pay between $1.50 and $7 a month to send their children to private schools if they didn\u2019t have to? In some isolated villages, the closest public school was still too far away, or impossible to get to during the rainy or cold seasons.<strong> For other families, the hidden costs of \u201cfree\u201d education outweighed the very low cost of schools in their communities (in Kenya, for example, one parent described high up-front costs for a building maintenance fund and two complete school uniforms required by the public schools in her area).<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Most reasons that the parents gave for their choice had to do with what the World Bank calls the \u201cshort route\u201d to accountability (as opposed to the \u201clong route\u201d which works through the political process).<\/strong> Because school owners\u2019 profits and reputations in the community depend directly on whether parents are happy with their children\u2019s schooling, they paid attention to parents\u2019 complaints. Because teachers in private schools can be fired, they were less likely to be late, idle or absent.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/aidwatchers.com\/2010\/02\/paying\/\">Paying for school on $2 a day<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why on earth would a poor family just getting by on the meager wages they earned fishing or pulling rickshaws choose to pay between $1.50 and $7 a month to send their children to private schools if they didn\u2019t have to? In some isolated villages, the closest public school was still too far away, or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/25\/repostpaying-for-school-on-2-a-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Paying for school on $2 a day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}