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Lavrinovičius brothers say they have spent half a million euros on private schooling for their children
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Lavrinovičius brothers say they have spent half a million euros on private schooling for their children

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Basketball brothers Darjušas and Kšyštofas Lavrinovičius say they have spent about 500,000 euros on their children’s education at a private British school in Vilnius.
  • The spending will feature in the premiere of TV3’s ‘KK2 savaitė’, a discussion program about private and state schooling.
  • Singer Paulius Bagdanavičius will discuss moving his family from Vilnius to Marijampolė, citing the local education system and the time spent driving children between activities.

Darjušas and Kšyštofas Lavrinovičius say their children’s private schooling has already cost the family about half a million euros. The brothers attend a new TV3 discussion program focused on the choice between private and state education.

We preliminarily calculated that we have already spent about half a million euros on the children’s education alone.

— Kšyštofas LavrinovičiusHe described the cost of sending the brothers’ children to a private British school in Vilnius.

Their children study at the same British private school in Vilnius, which has 13 grades. Kšyštofas says the family has spent approximately 500,000 euros on tuition, while Darjušas expects his children’s education to cost a similar amount. The brothers say they chose to direct money earned through basketball toward their children’s education rather than spend it on themselves.

The program will present the debate through parents and public figures on both sides. The private-school group will include the Lavrinovičius brothers, businessman Marius Jovaiša and Birutė Jakučionytė, who moved abroad because of dissatisfaction with state schools. The state-school group will include singer Paulius Bagdanavičius, musician Karolis Akulavičius and Viktorija Solovej, the mother of Lithuania’s most famous set of quadruplets.

One of the reasons was that I grew tired of working as a driver between activities and schools. It was a shame to spend that time in the car. I spent as much as two or three hours a day in the car.

— Paulius BagdanavičiusHe explained one reason his family moved from Vilnius to Marijampolė.

Bagdanavičius says his youngest daughter will start first grade, while the family has moved from Vilnius back to his hometown, Marijampolė. He says he grew tired of spending two or three hours a day driving children between schools and extracurricular activities. He also points to the school his daughters will attend, which he says ranks second nationally among lower-secondary schools. The premiere of ‘KK2 savaitė’ is scheduled for September 2 at 7:30 p.m. on TV3.

The school my daughters will attend ranks second in Lithuania according to lower-secondary school ratings.

— Paulius BagdanavičiusHe discussed the education option chosen by his family in Marijampolė.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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