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Citizens' Comments
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Written by Our Senior Staff
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012 06:15 |
Dear MOE,
We, a group of concerned citizens of the Republic of Liberia, write to bring to your attention the suffering we are going through as a result of the unreasonably and unbearably exorbitant tuition and registration fees private schools are subjecting us to and to ask you, being the requisite authority, to please do something about it.
You see, Education Ministry officials, most Liberian private schools are doing to parents and guardians what we term “cut throat, no blood”; meaning, they are eating our eyeball. To put it bluntly, they are exploiting us. They are stealing from us big time. It is what one of our fellow citizens has termed “broad-day robbery,” considering the fact that they are that brave to place such stealing on some equally criminally prepared document called Information Sheet. It is extremely irritatingly unacceptable.We, therefore, ask that you at the Ministry of Education do something about it.
Isn’t it pure stealing, dear officials, for school authorities to sell a one-sheet Information Sheet for LD150.00 or LD100.00? Even if the Information Sheet were photocopied back and front, it would cost LD10.00. Why charge LD150.00 or LD100.00 for that one sheet of paper? This broad-day stealing going on in the school system is suffering us. Please do something about it, Education Ministry.
Besides, some schools are charging computer fees when they don’t even have functioning computers or a computer laboratory. They just give all kinds of notes to the kids, without them touching or seeing the computers. Most private schools are fleecing parents and self-supported students. Please come to our aid, Ministry of Education.
Another stealing-related game played by most private schools is the continuous selling of Student Hand Book to old students. It is both illogical and criminal. Why should parents who had their children in a school last year be told to pay for Student Hand Book again this new school year, when these very parents paid for the same Hand Book last year? What is the rational or need for selling Student Hand Book to an old student, especially when it is the same Hand Book that was bought by parents last year? No changes have been made in it. This is stupid, and it is annoying. And it is criminal. Has the Student Hand Book become something like an I. D. Card that has a yearly use tag on it in the school system? Soon, some private schools will start selling applicant forms to old students, when those forms are meant for only new student Another equally annoying aspect associated with this is that most of us who paid for the Student Hand Books were not given those books.We are dying. We are suffering. We are being robbed. We are being fleeced. Education Ministry, could you please intervene to help us the citizens?
To be continued…
Yours very sincerely,
The Citizens |
