due to delayed delivery

Students in private schools resort to stationery to buy textbooks

Parents who deliberately did not pay the school for books to buy them from stationery stores.

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Parents of students in private schools in the Eastern Province said that despite the end of the fourth week of the official opening of schools in the country, and the return of students to attendance in them, there is a delay in the delivery of textbooks in some private schools, which causes a daily crisis, noting that it is a problem. Renewed every year, despite the fact that they pay the full expenses for the books.

A number of parents preferred to buy books affiliated with the Ministry of Education, in addition to the British curricula, from offices and stationery at competitive prices for private schools in the eastern region, stressing that some stationery took advantage of the parents’ need, and began selling the curricula of the Ministry of Education at 70% higher prices than the school own.

For her part, the official in charge of distributing textbooks in a private school in the Emirate of Fujairah confirmed that the problem of the availability of books belonging to the ministerial curricula is not within her specialty. As for the books on the British curriculum that are taught in the school, they come from outside the country, and need time to arrive.

She noted that she had received a number of observations from parents regarding the delay in delivering books, and these observations are taken into consideration.

While an administrator in a private school in the Emirate of Fujairah, which teaches the British curriculum, Asma Abdullah, confirmed that the school provided ways to help the guardian follow the lessons in a way that enables him to dispense with textbooks, which is to attach books to electronic copies on the “Times” program for each semester. For each lesson given to the student, the subject teacher uploads the educational material to him in the program, to review and study it until the availability of textbooks.

She pointed out that the school is in constant contact with the company responsible for distributing books for the British curriculum, and most of the books have been delivered for the different academic levels, but there are already books that are not available, and they will be made available during the next few days.

For her part, the guardian of five students in a private school in the Emirate of Fujairah, Salima Muhammad Al Balushi, confirmed that she had paid the amount of book expenses, which amounted to more than 5,000 dirhams, but she faces the problem of not all of them being available, and having to print copies of them personally until they are available in the school. The school.

She pointed out that the pressure experienced by the guardian in attempts to obtain textbooks or copies of them until they are available in the school is not easy, especially since subject teachers teach them to the student, and give homework, without the presence of any reference, and the lack of textbooks is not taken into account. For the student, which makes him lost, and not fully acquainted with the lesson.

She was supported in her opinion by the guardian of three students in different stages of study in a private school, Noura Muhammad Al Hammadi, saying: “I contacted the school administration, who informed me that the books were coming from outside the country, and needed time, so why weren’t the books requested at the end of the last academic year? To be delivered at the beginning of each academic year without any problems with its delay?

She added that the partial availability of books, and the guardian leaving his work every time to receive them, is unacceptable, and constitutes a new burden on the guardian.

The parent of a primary school student in a private school in the Eastern Province, Mahmoud Abdel Moneim, said: “I did not pay the school’s cost of textbooks, because I knew in advance that the books would not be available at the right time, which made me buy them from stationery that competes with the school’s prices, and the curricula books are available. He pointed out that he faces a problem in buying books for the curricula of the Ministry of Education, due to the high prices of 70% compared to selling prices in the school, and he believes that the outlets that sell books of the Ministry of Education take advantage of the delay in receiving them from the Ministry of Education. Private schools raise their prices, especially since there are a large number of parents who buy them, despite their high prices, because they urgently need them.

Private schools:

• “Many books come from outside the country, and it takes time to arrive, but we provide them with electronic copies.”

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