Parents' Committees at Private Schools Reject Tuition Fees Increase
Private school instructors have been campaigning for the last few month demanding a salary raise following the wage scale approval for public sector employees, a demand dubbed as “unacceptable” by private educational institutions.
A vicious circle of demands and denials as professors and teachers demand a raise that will eventually “compel” the schools' administrations to raise tuition fees, thus burdening parents with additional soaring costs for already costly education in Lebanon.
Parents' committees have categorically refused any increase in the school’s tuition fees, staging sit-ins near the schools' facilities. They emphasized that they will not sign any school budget that includes an increase.
The latest was on Thursday as the parents' committee at the College Notre Dame De Louaize staged a sit-in protesting the administration’s decision to increase the tuition fees.
The school's administration replied to the campaigners by deciding to suspend classes on Thursday, saying “the increases are righteous.”
President Michel Aoun has reportedly "found a solution for the issue." He said that “the State will fund the teacher's salaries in private schools, provided that the schools' tuition fees are based on their budgets that are subject to the supervision of the Ministry of Education,” al-Joumhouria daily said Wednesday.
Early in November, the Syndicate of Private School Teachers have called for a nationwide strike to protest the failure to grant teachers the pay raise stipulated by the wage scale law.
Source: Naharnet
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