Private schools have sent text messages to the phones of their students, indicating the possibility of recovering transportation fees for the third semester in two ways, the first being deducted from tuition fees for those who have not paid the fees in full for the current school year, or calculated from the fees for the next academic year for those who paid the fees in full for this year.
The students ’families, Abdullah Al Hammadi, Jasim Ahmed, and Saeed Haddad, told« Emirates Today »that they received messages on their phones, without the school administrations mentioning the possibility of returning the value of the fees in cash to those who wish to leave the school, expressing their surprise at the schools’ insistence to withdraw Checks on time.
They added that schools had to return transportation fees for the third semester for them as soon as formal learning was stopped and switching to "remote" learning to ease the financial burden accumulated by them due to the Corona virus crisis, pointing out that schools withdrew checks for the third semester fees from banks without delay, and they must Transportation fees shall be returned without delay also, taking into account the circumstances of the students ’families.
Private schools reported that they have put in place a mechanism to refund transportation fees for students ’families in accordance with their approved financial system, so as not to make mistakes.
And she added that if the students decide to return the transportation fees completely, either the students must either attend the school to receive the amount, and this is contrary to the precautionary measures, or deduct it from the fees for the current school year, or calculate it within the tuition fees for the next academic year for those who paid the fees during the current academic year .
She explained that she received requests from students with students to recover the fees for leaving the country and returning to their country, or to transfer their children to other schools during the next academic year, adding that she is studying their applications and will inform them of their final decisions soon, according to the interest of schools and the families of students.
She explained that she was looking for a mechanism to guarantee the rights of the school and the families of the students according to its financial system, to avoid any financial errors.
She asked the students ’families to give her until the end of the current school year to approve their applications.