2023-06-09 14:09:21
The end of the school year did not constitute an opportunity for parents to take a deep breath from the academic requirements, especially the financial ones, as school administrations rushed to inform them of raising the tuition fees for the next academic year by more than 3 or 4 times the tuition of the previous year, which put them in front of a difficult challenge, either transferring their children from schools that they will not be able to They have to pay the serious fees or go to the official school.
In the opinion of teachers’ sources, talk of displacement from private to public schools is unfounded. On the contrary, there is displacement from public to private schools, given that there is no public school to move to, and if there is a public school that produces education of a standard, it is possible to talk regarding displacement.
It reveals that during the past two years, 82,000 students have moved from official to private, even though the tuition is in dollars.
And she confirms that this year will not witness an exodus from the private, especially that the Lebanese, despite the high tuition, will go to private schools because he is a student.
In turn, the Secretary General of Catholic Schools, Father Youssef Nasr, did not hear regarding this displacement, and he told the “Lebanon Debate” that there is no information so far that indicates large requests for school certificates in order to leave private schools.
However, it reveals that a category of citizens has become unable somewhere to pay the premiums, so the call for solidarity between educational institutions, donors and the state to support them to respect the right of any student to education.
He explains that with regard to Catholic schools, they work in installments in Lebanese pounds, while the support fund will be in US dollars, especially since the situation they are going through is bad and the teachers’ demands are right. Therefore, work is being done on a deliberate increase that is equal to the capabilities of the parents, and the most important thing is that it be transparent and fair that respects the capabilities of the parents, as well. It is noteworthy that the fees differ from one school to another, according to the region and the environment in which it is located.
This statement is not agreed upon by the head of the Union of Parents’ Committees in Private Schools, Lama Al-Taweel, who confirms to the “Lebanon Debate” that the schools and the state are not aware of the magnitude of the coming disaster, because pricing in dollars will make many parents lose the ability to pay the installments, which will lead them, of course, to the neighborhoods of the so-called “Shop Schools.” .
Here, a distinction is made between parents without the middle line who will de jure go to public schools, and parents on the middle line who will go to the shops’ schools, and the most serious issue is the issue of school dropouts, where children may work to help their siblings complete their studies.
She gives an example of the scale of the disaster, when a father of two students in a school affiliated with a religious party asks her, “Should I sell my kidney in order to educate my children?”
And he noted that the problem was specifically regarding public sector employees and security services who used to receive grants to educate their children, as these grants no longer cover the value of stationery only, so what do these people do with installments that reached three thousand dollars in some schools in addition to the installments in Lebanese pounds.
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