Parents Withdraw Students From School

Parents have withdrawn their children from a private school in Victoria Falls saying they cannot afford the fees.

Amazing Kids Primary School is run by Mr Ozias Marange of Makomwe Transport and Hardware and has more than 100 pupils from Early Childhood Development (ECD) to Grade Two.

The fees is US$130 per term per pupil and parents have been appealing to the school authorities to discount them for this term.

Parents are accusing the school authorities of fleecing them as the school is also demanding US$6 per pupil for masks, an additional US$1 per pupil for fumigating the school premises and US$10 security fees per child.

The school opened on Monday yet is supposed to open next week according to the Government’s phased reopening of schools schedule and only two pupils attended classes according to parents.

The majority said they withdrew their children because the school authorities have refused to engage over the issue of high fees. Schools closed prematurely towards the end of the first term as part of measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Government resolved to reopen schools in three phases to allow room to monitor the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education adopted Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to guide the safe reopening. Mbaretimes