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Apounds 33,000; Q How much must you spend to collect enough school vouchers to exchange for a pounds 50 camera? EXCLUSIVE.


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THE staggering true cost of supermarket school voucher A school voucher, also called an education voucher, is a certificate by which parents are given the ability to pay for the education of their children at a school of their choice, rather than the public school (UK state school) to which they were assigned.  schemes can be revealed today.

Tesco's Computers for Schools and Sainsbury's Active Kids campaigns encourage mums and dads to shop in return for classroom and sporting equipment for their kids.

But in order to collect an pounds 800 classroom computer parents have to spend an astonishing pounds 250,000 at the tills - while they need to splash out splash out
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to spend a lot of money on a treat or luxury: she planned to splash out on a good holiday 
 pounds 33,000 to gain enough vouchers for a pounds 50 digital camera.

Last night, a spokesman for the National Union of Teachers said: "With the amount of profit that stores like Tesco and Sainsbury's are making, you would think they could afford to be more generous."
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Publication:Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date:Apr 27, 2008
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