In the lawsuits, she demands compensation, legal interest, and attorneys' fees

Private schools resort to the judiciary to collect late fees

Private schools have resorted to the courts to collect late tuition fees for students' families.

Finally, Abu Dhabi courts witnessed several incidents that ended with the issuance of judgments in favor of schools.

"Emirates Today" monitored cases pending before the courts, and judicial rulings included by the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi within the judgments published on its electronic portal, for private schools to initiate lawsuits against students' families due to late payment of tuition fees.

The cases included a private school filing a lawsuit, in which it demanded that the defendant, in his capacity as the natural guardian of his daughter, be obligated to pay her 790 dirhams and the legal interest at 12% from the date of filing the lawsuit until full payment, along with obligating him to pay fees, expenses and attorney fees, because the defendant did not pay the rest Payments due, while another school filed a lawsuit against a guardian, at the end of which it requested a ruling obligating him to pay her 10 thousand and 290 dirhams with obliging him to pay fees and expenses and in return for attorneys' fees, as the defendant enrolled his daughter in the plaintiff school. Scholastic did not pay it.

Private schools were not satisfied with obtaining rulings for late fees, but they also filed compensation claims, and demanded the legal benefit of 12% from the date of the claim until full payment, with students' parents obligated to pay fees, expenses and attorney fees.

A school filed a lawsuit, in which it demanded that the father of a student be obligated to pay her 21,288 dirhams with late benefits and obligate him to pay 2000 dirhams as material and moral compensation, while obliging him to fees, expenses and attorney fees, indicating that the student's father refused to pay tuition fees for the past year.

The families of the students of Muhammad Ali, Hisham Makki, Israa Yahya, and Samar Shawqi criticized the schools ’lack of appreciation for the conditions that occur to families and cause them to fail financially, noting that the schools adopt several methods of pressure on families, including demanding fees from their children in front of their colleagues, which exposes them to embarrassing situations that affect them. In their psyche and pushing them to lose the desire to study and averse to school, in addition to depriving them of books, preventing them from school hours, or attending classes for distance education, in addition to not obtaining the certificate until after the arrears are paid, while not allowing them to transfer to low-fee schools in line with New conditions for families, in addition to the prosecution of students' families in the courts.

They indicated that schools collect from students' parents the tuition fees in advance through dated checks and when payment is delayed they get a bank rejection of the check, and criminal cases are filed against them, calling for expansion in establishing private schools for low-income people, and a more flexible mechanism for financially troubled families so that students do not stop studying Due to the failure of their relatives to pay the fees.

Officials in private schools, Muhammad Adly, Ibrahim Riad and Nashwa Saadallah, confirmed that the tuition fees that schools receive from students' families are spent on the salaries of teachers, administrators and workers who participated in the education of students and arranging the educational process for them, and in the event that the guardian evaded paying the fees The academic and administrative team's effort at the school has been robbed, pointing out that some parents, after registering their children in the school, are satisfied with paying the first installment, procrastinating in paying the rest of the installments, and accumulating tuition fees for more than a year, and the school gives them more than one opportunity and method of payment, When opportunities are exhausted, the school can only take legal measures to obtain its financial rights, and there is no harm in the school claiming its right.

According to the legal affairs official at a private school, Imad Ragheb, if the guardian refuses to pay the tuition fees after the end of the school year, the school has the right to resort to the judiciary and file a lawsuit to claim its financial dues, indicating that the students' families provide several justifications to evade paying the fees, as if Some of them deny the school's effort completely, and claim that the tuition fees are not commensurate with the educational level, or that his financial conditions do not allow now, and the school must wait without specifying a period or date for payment.

4 Consequences for Late Payment

The Department of Education and Knowledge in Abu Dhabi affirmed that the school must publish a clear and transparent policy on the consequences of non-payment of school fees or late payment of them, while ensuring that the school provides a fair payment system, and does not impose financial penalties as a means of punishment.

She indicated that it is not permissible to dismiss a student from school because of late payment of school fees, and it is not permissible to prevent any student from entering exams at the end of the semester or year or any exam scheduled during the year due to non-payment of school fees, stressing the need for schools to deal with issues of non-payment of fees. Schooling in a secret manner, in order to protect the student from embarrassment or any unnecessary attention.

The department clarified that failure to pay fees has four consequences, as the school may suspend the student temporarily for a period of up to three days after warning his guardian three times, a written warning of one week each time, and the school may withhold the result from the student, and refrain from issuing certificates. Transfer, in addition to refraining from re-registering the student until the fees are settled.

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school demanding 790 dirhams, and the legal interest from the date of filing the case until payment.

Schools collect fees by checks, and when payment is delayed, along with bank rejection, criminal cases are raised.

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