Educational spend decrease

The Ministry of Education announced that the spend for education in Japanese family dropped suddenly this year.What dose it mean? I think this is seriously effect our future because educational spend is something like a investment, not just expense.Investment is valuable for good life in the near future and if people save this investment young people feel but image in their future and turn out to be addict for just saving money. It is very sad phenomenon,I think. We should do something to get people to change those sad thinkings.