Parents told Emirates Today students that their children's schools are using school buses to profit excessively.Thus, fees are raised every year, and students at different ages are integrated into one bus, with few supervisors, leading to multiple bullying cases. The students are piled inside the bus, by allocating two seats for every three students, to provide a seat, although the student's parents pay a seat fee of up to AED 10,000 per student, which also results in the transmission of diseases among students.

The Ministry of Education called on the parents of students to report any abuses committed by private schools, whether inside school buses or other, noting that they closely follow all private schools, and stresses its commitment to all regulations and standards.

The father of two students in a private school in the Emirate of Sharjah, Khalid Ibrahim, said that he shared his two sons in the school bus with an annual fee of 4000 dirhams to reserve a seat for each, but the school is distributed to the number of seats less than the number of them, so that every three students sit on two seats, thus A seat is available, although the fees paid are for the allocation of a chair for each student, and the number of students in a bus with 28 seats to 40 students, crowding students during the school trip, which takes more than an hour and a half from school to home, or from home to School.

He pointed out that the school increases the fees of school buses on an annual basis, pointing out that he is forced to subscribe to his sons in the school bus, because of the conditions of work that prevent him from taking them to school every day.

“School bus fees are excessively high,” said Omar Yusuf, the father of a student at a private school in the emirate of Sharjah, adding that he pays 4,000 dirhams to reserve a seat for his daughter in the school bus, although the distance between the school in the Yarmouk area and housing in the cooperation zone A short distance does not require this amount.

He pointed out that he starts his daily work in the Emirate of Dubai at eight in the morning, which forces him to leave his home to work at six and a half, and this time is not commensurate with the timing of his daughter to go to school, and then had to book a seat in the school bus.

For his part, the guardian of a student in the first grade, Engineer Abdul Hamid Khalil, that the mixing of students of different ages in one school bus caused bullying among students in the bus, especially older students against the youngest of them, stressing that his son complains bullying some The students against him on the school bus, until it came to the fact that one of the students hit him in the window glass of the bus, which forced him to inform the principal more than once.

She added that bullying is not limited to students, but issued by some teachers against students, calling on the Ministry of Education and the authorities responsible for education to develop serious solutions, to reduce the phenomenon of bullying between students and colleagues, and between teachers and students.

The parents of two students at a private school in Dubai, Emad Naeem, said that the school exaggerates the fees of school buses, which amount to 10,000 dirhams for students who live in Dubai, adding: «We do not know the reason for the adoption of these high fees, as there are no additional services worth "The fees are so high, and the bus journey doesn't extend outside the emirate."

He explained that the school bus trip between the school in Al Sufouh and the home in the Umm Suqeim area in the Emirate of Dubai does not deserve these exaggerated fees, although the school approves the same fees for students who live in areas further away.

The father of a third-grade student, Abdul Rahman Mustafa, pointed out that the problems of school buses are not limited to fees and bullying, but that parents of students suffer continuously neglect the driver and supervisor, as they do not care for the student as soon as he got off the bus, as if their task ended at the door of the bus They then let the young student face the cars on the street alone.

He continued: «I made sure to pay the driver 100 dirhams every period to take care of my son, and then became accompanied to the door of the elevator in the building, and waits with him until my wife takes him».

For its part, the Ministry of Education confirmed that supervisory teams are monitoring private schools, to determine the extent of compliance with regulations, including security and safety issues related to school buses, and the inspection team sends reports of all violations to the Department of Institutional Licensing, which in turn to send alerts and violations to schools, according to Oversight reports.

«Education» calls for reporting abuses

The Ministry of Education called on parents of students to file a complaint against any abuses regarding the educational process in private schools, including school buses, through official channels approved, and based on the observations made by parents of students take action against them, by verifying the complaint, and raise Report to the Department of Institutional Licenses, to take action.

The school contract and the guardian approved by the Dubai Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) are the legal framework that guarantees the rights and responsibilities of the school and the student's guardian. The detailed data of the fees approved by the Authority.

The non-educational services, such as books, transportation and uniforms, are provided in two ways, the first is through the school itself. The second method is to contract with third parties that provide these services.

"Knowledge":

“The school has no right

Impose no increase

Before getting

Approval of the Commission ».

Parents of Students:

«We do not know the reason for approval

This fee

Exorbitant, as there are no

additional services".