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Should grandparents pay for their grandchildren’s school fees?

Students attend a class at Alexandria Park Community School in Sydney on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. (AAP Image/Paul Miller) NO ARCHIVING

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With rising educational costs, more and more grandparents are helping out with school fees. The cost of sending a child born in 2018 through the private schooling system ends up close to half a million from prep through to Year 12.



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