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Education reforms only prolong the suffering of budget-strapped parents:<\/strong> As back to school season gets underway, parents are alreading panicking about their budgets for tutors, writes Mohamed Saad Abdel Hafiz in Al Shorouk<\/a>. It is hoped that the reformed Thanaweya Amma \u2014 with its move towards a high school GPA system, less rote-memorization, and streamlined exams \u2014 would put an end to the thriving school tutoring industry, which could run parents up to EGP 3,000 per month, he says. All this move does is spread out the stress parents experience in one year over the course of the three high school years, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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