The management of private institutes in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi are cheating, rather fleecing the less literate parents of students in the name of providing quality education to their children.
A survey conducted by APP had found that normally no strict admission criteria was observed by these schools and anyone who could afford the hefty fees could get his/her child admitted at any stage throughout the academic year. Parents have expressed reservations against the burgeoning culture of private schools. They complained of expensive fee structures, inefficient teaching faculty, substandard education, poor playground facilities for students and imposing hefty extracurricular charges by the school management on various pretexts. “We are asked to purchase textbooks and notebooks from the school bookshop. “You won’t believe that the school charged me Rs 1,000 for participating in the annual parents’ day and later charged Rs 500 because the management had arranged a bus for the students to bring them to the ceremonial hall. Another parent Asif Shah told APP that private schools were operating in every nook and corner of the city and many businessmen had started looking at the education sector as a lucrative business venture.
