Govt should intervene

Dear Editor, GOVERNMENT should not run away from its responsibility of regulating schools in the country. Why should a school that belongs to the church for that matter be charging exorbitant and unreasonable project fees?

Mind you these are hard times. Where will the parents get that kind of money from ? K10,000 does not grow on trees please.

St Mary’s Girls School administration should be reasonable and not make outrageous demands on parents just because they know that for some, they have no choice but to stick it out.

Apart from the amount being exorbitant, the manner in which the school wants the money to be paid is worrying. It is my view that perhaps parents would have understood if this amount was staggered so that the first term, a portion of it is paid and the rest in instalments agreed upon.

Those who fail to pay can still be advised that their examination results would be withheld until the fee was paid. But to demand that right there and then the K10,000 be paid is unreasonable and it is not a move that one would expect from a Christian school. Catholic run school are generally sought after because of the quality of education offered as well as the schools that are charged across the board.

Now this nightmare project fees that the school is springing on parents is ridiculous.

Government should not allow such abuse of the liberalisation of the economy to over charge parents. It can not be business as usual. Something must be done and done fast. BWALYA, Chingola