They will do almost anything to get their children into the oversubscribed school, even though it charges its primary pupils $180 a year when the state school across the road is free.

尽管路对面的公立学校免费，而私立学校对每个小学生收费180美元，但是父母们 都愿竭尽所能将自己的孩子送进本已人满为患的私立学校。