A private school with students studying on their seats requires payment of more than Dh1.5 million for accumulated financial entitlements, in return for granting their children a transfer certificate or re-admission in their classes.
The same applies to a number of other schools. Students are required to pay tuition arrears, much of which is due to past years.
The head of the Department of Supervision in the Ras Al Khaimah Educational Zone, Nader Musa Al Mandous, confirmed that schools are entitled to claim their financial rights and refuse to re-register students in their ranks, pointing out that The Regulation of Special Education Regulations gave private schools the right to suspend the student temporarily, to withhold the result, and to refrain from issuing the transfer certificate until the settlement of the financial installments.
Bassam Ahmed, the father of Tala, said the school administration was asking him to pay 26,000 dirhams for tuition fees last year and that his financial situation was difficult and he could not pay the required amount.
He pointed out that he felt the pain of his daughter, who was studying in the ninth grade, in the house without education, as a result of the school's refusal to pay the accumulated fees, explaining that «the school administration obscures the certificate of transfer and refuses to give it to me to re-register my daughter in another school».
He said: "If the school agreed to cancel the amount owed or installment or deduct a certain percentage of it I am willing to respond to it, because I will be able to bring my daughter to school."
The father of a student named Hammam Abdullah confirmed that he was unable to pay the tuition fees for the school in which his son was studying because of bank loans. He added that keeping his son at home without studying for two consecutive years might help him to pay his debts and ease the financial burdens. The school deducts 50% of the outstanding financial fees, which are estimated at AED 30,000.
He explained that his son had bought textbooks for the fifth semester and that he was studying at home as if he were in school, confirming that he would be re-registered at school once the tuition fees were available.
He considered that the school administration does not take into consideration the financial conditions of the students' families, and insists on withholding transport certificates, denying students access to other schools, or making any financial adjustments.
The mother of a student in the fifth chapter, called Nisreen Saber, that her father was unable to pay tuition fees last year and re-registration in the classroom, which caused her daughter's psychological crisis due to stay at home without study.
She explained that her daughter is superior, and that the accumulation of tuition fees to 35 thousand dirhams was a reason to stop school as a result of the refusal of the school administration to accept in the classroom.
The mother added that the financial circumstances experienced by the family made her decide to stop Nasreen from studying until the financial conditions improve, noting that the school administration refused to deduct any part of the amount or installment.
For his part, Dr. Ayman Sulaiman Khamis, Chairman of Salaf Charity School, said that the administration deducted 50% of all tuition fees since the beginning of the school year in order to enable students to attend school and not to be deprived of education due to the difficult financial circumstances of their families.
He explained that the school has financial dues on the people of students six years ago, and demanded the payment of dues to ensure the continuation of their children in the study, but some of them reject the principle of discounts or pay any money, forcing the school administration to refuse to accept seven students as a result of parents refused to pay fees Due.
"Some parents do not pay any money, do not interact with the school's initiatives, insist on depriving their children from school, and keeping them at home," said Najwa al-Taniji, head of the private Arab school in Ras al-Khaimah.
She explained that the school administration takes into account the financial conditions of the students and examines each case and assess the economic status of the guardian, and exempt students with limited income from the tuition few, but if the school shows that the guardian is able to pay the accumulated financial dues on it are delayed payments, Of them in any way.