The Lahore High Court (LHC) has warned the administration of private schools that the school owners would be summoned in the court if any student was expelled owing to the non-payment of school fee.
Justice Sajid Mehmood Sethi was hearing different petitions seeking action against schools that were still charging fee in violation of the Supreme Court’s verdict.
Justice Sethi said private school administrations must refrain from expelling children over non-payment of their school fee.
As the proceedings commenced on Friday, the petitioner’s counsel Safdar Shaheen Pirzada implored the court that the students who did not pay school fee have been restricted from attending online classes.
Later, the government opened the schools but when the children went to schools, the school administration stopped them from attending classes owing to the non-payment of fee. He requested the court that directions be issued to the quarters concerned to stop schools from charging the fee for the period of Covid-19 spell.
Some parents filed petitions in LHC against different schools over allegedly increasing the annual fee by 8% rather than 5% which is sheer violation of the mandate of the judgment handed in by the country’s top court.
The petitioners had contended that the private school owners had issued fee vouchers to the students with 8% annual increase. They had complained to the court that the school administrations had posed threats that the online education portals would be closed on those students who did not pay the fee on the said increased rate.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 26th, 2020.
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