Parents Battle School Management Over 175k for E-learning Fee During this Pandemic Period.

Report Coming from Opera news

The smooth rapport between the parents and management of Atlantic Hall School is gradually taking a back-step following their tense disagreement that tailored towards what the parents described as crass extortion by the school.

Nigerian schools have been shut down for about two months due to the present situation while several schools are scheming to create a learning environment for the students outside the classrooms in order to reduce the heavy impact on their accademic lives.

But from the report coming from Atlantic Hall School, located in Epe Lagos, there is a raging battle between the parents and the Board of Trustees over the extra charges for the online learning which appears to be unfriendly for the parents.

The parents were asked to cough out a sum of 175,000 naira only for their ward who would be participating in the onliny intellectual activities.

The decision which was taken by the school BoT was communicated to the parents by it's principal, Andrew Jedra at a PTA meeting held on Zoom on Tuesday evening.

Before now, the school had allegedly imposed a sum of 195,000 naira on the parents as online tuition fee which was bluntly rejected.

After reviewing the decision in line with the current economic challenge, the management apparently in its show of magnanimity decided to prune down the charges to 175,000 naira with the hope of meeting the budget of parents, but this time, it met another brickwall.

Both decision was communicated to them in a letter sent by the school.

In a heated reaction to the decision, parents accused the Board of Trustees as "too profit-oriented" and inconsiderate with their decision despite the current state of things in the country.

They unanimously agreed to reject the offer from the school management. Every attempt by the school principal to score a point and get the parents on the same page with the management was fruitless.

The parents who cited other top private schools both within and outside Lagos that paid #60,000 and below however agreed to pay for value and quality but not exploitation.

Right now, it is a case of who blinks first between the parents and the school authority over how much to pay for an E-learning that only consumes data to disseminate and receive through an electronic gadget.