Class 9th student was asked to return home over fees overdue

Class 9th student was asked to return home over fees overdue

Despite the government making several policies to keep tabs on the schools’ fees of private schools, a class 9th school student was harassed and asked to return home because of fees overdue. The incident took place in the Brilliant Grammar School of Hyderabad. “We are not against schools collecting fees, but that should purely be between parents and school management. Under no circumstances, should the child be involved. The same thing happened in this incident, where the class 9 student was sent back on the pretext that he did not pay the fees,” said Achyuta Rao, honorary president, Balala Hakula Sangham. “Unfortunately, despite a number of cases being reported every month, the school education department has no concrete plan to deal with such issues... We feel that unless they are directly made accountable and action is initiated against the district or Mandal education officer concerned along with erring teacher and school management, the situation is going to remain the same,” Rao added. Meanwhile, the school education department officials who are on a fly to investigate the schools since the first week of the August have not taken any action. “I have had directed the deputy inspection officers and deputy education officers to visit at least 20 private schools every month and interact with students to know about issues bothering them. However, we havenʼt issued any show-cause notices yet,” said B Venkata Narassama, Hyderabad district education officer. Parents are also blaming the education officials and said that they are not working sincerely and only conducting the inquiries for the sake of it.

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