RAK students fined for vandalising bus seats
ras al khaimah — Over 30 expat students of Jawda Secondary School for Boys have been fined by the school for destroying five of their school bus seats ‘just for fun’. Ahmed Malek, manager of the Dheit School Bus Station, said the incident took place a few days back when the bus driver reported the students’ unruly behaviour and misconduct to the school authorities.
As per initial investigation by the school administration, all the 31 students, need to pay a total of Dh750 (Dh25 each) as repair charges. Although only a handful of students out of the 31 were involved in the act of vandalism, the rest were also asked to pay the fine as they refused to speak against their friends or bear witness to their act of vandalism. “The fine comes as a disciplinary action against the students amount meant to make them stop their ill practices,” Malek said.
Each student involved in the misconduct has been asked to pay Dh25, according to Ali Ismael, an educationalist with the school. As a counter penalty, the school has also refused to even approve a transfer request of the 31 students before they pay for the repair charges of the seats that they intentionally destroyed.
Students should have been more careful and not behaved so recklessly regarding this public property which belongs to the Emirates Transport, and that is a national institution that has to be preserved, he pointed out.
“The Bus Station has therefore raised the issue to the School Administration attached with due fees for fixing the marred seats.”
The school administration has decided to force all the students, who take the bus to school, to pay the set fine because they refused to tell the names of the naughty students involved, Ismael explained.
“However, the students insisted on not paying the fine to the body concerned saying they have already paid their school fees in the beginning of the academic year, and cannot pay anymore for repairing the bus seats.”