What do you do if your family is proven to be surviving at
the below a dollar a day rate and you kid’s school fees are due?,the fees
themselves equalling the value of the only piece of land you own and live on as
well as off it.
Well some parents here were shocked speech less when they
received court summonses to appear and answer civil charges of NOT PAYING
SCHOOL FEES, and a parallel word of mouth to the effect that their sole properties, the land parcels,
could be sold to recover the fees. This decision by the school and the village
leaderships was reached without a school board as the school itself (Tumona secondary
school) in Hai district is run without an active board, a board, seemingly, being
unnecessary as the powers of the courts and other state organs, are readily at
hand to intimidate the poverty stricken parents.
It is contrary to law
to run a public secondary school without an active board
Consider this, let us allow that the family land is sold to
cover this year’s outstanding fees, in a course of four years what would one
sell to cover the remaining three?
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