The Heat is increasing

Various schools are adopting different methods to force the parents of children studying in their schools to pay the fees - not as determined by the Committee as per statute, but as the Schools themselves determine in an arbitrary manner.  These fees over and above the committee's recommendation is collected with receipt or without receipt.  It is collected in different names. They invent all sorts of things out of syllabus.  Of course, invariably these are done arbitrarily.  No sanction or approval of any Parent body.  To get this arbitrarily fixed extra fees from the parents, they employ all sorts of methods.

One method common is involving the teaching staff.  Through these teachers only they can persuade, intimidate, cajole, coax, coerce and force the parents into paying.  For that again, to reach out to the parents, they have to invariably use the Children.  It is these children who are put to strain in these methods of intimidation.  Mental and physical abuse of the right of the children is growing in the school campuses.  And the administration perpetually seeks concrete evidence for these reported abuses.

Parent bodies have been appealing to various authorities.  Now, it has been decided that all the Parent Associations in Coimbatore will try to meet the District Collector, Coimbatore on the Grievance Redressal day on 13.2.12 (Monday) and petition the Government for its urgent intervention.  Details of the memorandum will be published here after it is handed over.