The Students Parents Federation has appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) for a 13-point suo moto action to address the concerns of parents regarding the looting and oppression by the private schools that their children are enrolled at.
In a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, the Private Schools Parents Association Chairman, Nadeem Mirza, said that despite the government’s order, schools are open all across Pakistan for which extra fees are being charged.
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“What psychological education is being imparted to children without uniforms by inviting them to school through the back door”? Mirza asked.
He said that the owners of private schools are in direct confrontation with the writ of the government and are robbing parents by imposing hefty fees with no one to hold them accountable.
He further inquired, “How many FIRs have been lodged against school owners for violating SOPs and government orders”?
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The owners of private schools have been using all sorts of tactics to extract full fees from the schools that had been closed under the directives of the government regardless of how the pandemic has been taking its toll on the students’ parents.
Mirza exhorted the government to keep schools closed during the pandemic, especially considering the emergence of the new type of coronavirus that children are susceptible to. He also asked the government to obtain refunds of the fees that the private schools had forcefully collected by resorting to threats and intimidations.
