Hyderabad: School hikes fee by 9%, parents start online plea

HYDERABAD: After a well-known school in the city hiked the fee for academic year 2020-21, the students’ parents have began a petition on Change.org, demanding the school to do away with the ‘promoted class fee’ and collect last year’s tuition fee instead.
The parents said that the school, which has its branches in Kondapur, Gachibowli, and Jubilee Hills, is using a loophole in the government order and has increased the fee by at least 9%.
“The GO was released to provide little relief to parents during this economic crisis. The school management, however, is trying to make us shell out more by saying that we have to pay the promoted class fee of last year,” said a parent, whose pupil currently studies in Class 7.
They also questioned how the school arrived at the promoted class fee for 2019-20 ( the baseline fees) when fees payable varies for every student depending on the year the student was admitted into the school.
The parents said that they will approach the management on Monday with the petition, demanding the school to maintain the status quo on fees similar to the year 2019-2020. The petition has over 260 signatures and is addressed to the education minister and the school management.