Save us from Homisdallen and Buloba
Apr 18, 2009
EDITOR—Where are school inspectors in this country? Are private schools above the law? We talk about patriotism but this is the time to walk the patriotism talk for the good of the community.
EDITOR—Where are school inspectors in this country? Are private schools above the law? We talk about patriotism but this is the time to walk the patriotism talk for the good of the community.
Somebody please rein in the money-hungry hawks of Buloba High and Homisdallen Primary schools, to mention but a few.
Buloba has invited Senior Four and Six students back for the so-called ‘Term X’, which will last three weeks. This will cost sh100,000! On its part, Homisdallen sent all children for holiday on Easter but asked the top classes to return immediately after the festive holiday. They cut the school term by three weeks! The official end of term is April 24-26.
To add insult to injury, each candidate must pay an additional sh15,000 and deliver a new round of school requirements although the parents had already paid full fees of about sh500,000 for this term. It is deliberate that the children are sent home early so that the schools can save substantial amounts of money in terms of utilities and teachers’ allowances. Why do Bubola and Homisdallen managers think they can act with impunity by creating illegal school terms and charging fortunes for them? It is illegal to detain children at school in the holiday (unless the Ministry of Education changed the rules last night). It is too costly, besides being criminal, to ask parents to pay fees twice in the same term.
In the case of Buloba, the children were first sent home for a five-day break which cost parents dearly in transport and other costs (made worse by the credit crunch). One parent has three candidates.
The family lives in Rukungiri. A return journey, personal effects and pocket money swallowed a whopping sh200,000!!! Remember, the children have to travel back home at the end of ‘Term X’! Then there is second term school fees, which is about sh1.5m about (sh500,000 per child). This, of course, excludes pocket money, transport and the usual long list of school requirements.
This is pure corruption— criminal, abuse of power, insolent and unacceptable! Justice John Bosco Katutsi must swing into action and teach these unpatriotic managers a lesson or two. I hope Cheeye has learnt his, or will, in Luzira where he will live for the next decade.
We parents are disturbed that Buloba High School, which had been managed professionally (at one point, arguably, the neatest and most disciplined in Uganda) when founder and director Elishama Perren Lubwana was alive and in charge.
I have never seen a better disciplinarian and professional teacher! Now Buloba High has fallen into the grip of a wanton species, out to line up their wallets fast, at the expense of children and parents. Perren’s ghost must be turning in his grave seeing the school he painstakingly built begin to crumble hardly a year after his passing on.
Now over to the education inspectors: you should have seen this and stopped it in its tracks.
You did not (as expected). Think of the children who will not have the chance to rest their brains, spend quality time with their families, and learn other life-skills outside the classroom. Please, for once, crack the whip and halt this broad-day robbery of parents.
Concerned Parents
Somebody please rein in the money-hungry hawks of Buloba High and Homisdallen Primary schools, to mention but a few.
Buloba has invited Senior Four and Six students back for the so-called ‘Term X’, which will last three weeks. This will cost sh100,000! On its part, Homisdallen sent all children for holiday on Easter but asked the top classes to return immediately after the festive holiday. They cut the school term by three weeks! The official end of term is April 24-26.
To add insult to injury, each candidate must pay an additional sh15,000 and deliver a new round of school requirements although the parents had already paid full fees of about sh500,000 for this term. It is deliberate that the children are sent home early so that the schools can save substantial amounts of money in terms of utilities and teachers’ allowances. Why do Bubola and Homisdallen managers think they can act with impunity by creating illegal school terms and charging fortunes for them? It is illegal to detain children at school in the holiday (unless the Ministry of Education changed the rules last night). It is too costly, besides being criminal, to ask parents to pay fees twice in the same term.
In the case of Buloba, the children were first sent home for a five-day break which cost parents dearly in transport and other costs (made worse by the credit crunch). One parent has three candidates.
The family lives in Rukungiri. A return journey, personal effects and pocket money swallowed a whopping sh200,000!!! Remember, the children have to travel back home at the end of ‘Term X’! Then there is second term school fees, which is about sh1.5m about (sh500,000 per child). This, of course, excludes pocket money, transport and the usual long list of school requirements.
This is pure corruption— criminal, abuse of power, insolent and unacceptable! Justice John Bosco Katutsi must swing into action and teach these unpatriotic managers a lesson or two. I hope Cheeye has learnt his, or will, in Luzira where he will live for the next decade.
We parents are disturbed that Buloba High School, which had been managed professionally (at one point, arguably, the neatest and most disciplined in Uganda) when founder and director Elishama Perren Lubwana was alive and in charge.
I have never seen a better disciplinarian and professional teacher! Now Buloba High has fallen into the grip of a wanton species, out to line up their wallets fast, at the expense of children and parents. Perren’s ghost must be turning in his grave seeing the school he painstakingly built begin to crumble hardly a year after his passing on.
Now over to the education inspectors: you should have seen this and stopped it in its tracks.
You did not (as expected). Think of the children who will not have the chance to rest their brains, spend quality time with their families, and learn other life-skills outside the classroom. Please, for once, crack the whip and halt this broad-day robbery of parents.
Concerned Parents