Sole focus on revenue
Dear Sir,
Parents recently received a circular from the Doha Modern Indian School, asking them to re-register their children for next year’s classes by paying a non-refundable QR2,000 which will be adjusted against the first-term fees which is due within a week. Also, all parents have to submit two additional post-dated cheques for the fees for terms 2 and 3 at the same time.
One wonders if such a practice is approved by the Supreme Education Council (SEC) and why a school should be so scared of losing students during the year by asking parents to submit cheques for the whole year’s fees in advance?
If the quality of education is good, why would a parent want to withdraw the child from the school? Why is there so much focus only on revenue? Why has education become just a business?
Alex Pandian, (e-mail address supplied)
Please don’t blow up issues
Dear Sir,
In reference to the letter, “Children at risk from heavy schoolbags” (Gulf Times, March 4), I would like to say that it is not a problem that has suddenly cropped up; it has been there for ages. If what the letter writer says is all true about the health risk of carrying heavy schoolbags, then all of us must have developed severe back problems and we should all have been under orthopaedic care now. We “carried” those heavy schoolbags to schools and back home and we have lived to tell the tale!
I admit there is a problem of sorts, but why should we exaggerate it? Talking about children’s rights and things like that may look good on the paper, but ultimately such statements don’t serve any purpose. Talking with your child’s teachers will sort out most of the problems being raised by the writer.
RT, (Full name and address supplied)
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