Minutes of today's meeting with school (DPS Secunderabad)

Brief of discussions with school today morning

1. It has been confirmed by school that the fee structure stands at the amount as per the circular sent by school. Detailed structure would be circulated on Monday through the children, valid for academic year 2011-12.

2. School has consulted 2 Parents few months back. as per them, to take a decision on fee hike. It has been questioned as to who has decided & on what basis these Parents were approved ! This shows the mean attitude of management towards Parents & high headedness of management. Compliance to requirement is one & acceptance of managemnet on Parents demands is the other. First one gives short term gains but the second one would give a longterm gains to school management, teachers, students & parents.

3. Due date to pay the 1st term fee is now extended to 20th April, 2011. Parents request is to extend it to 15th May, 2011 incontinutation to the request put forward for the past 2years for the reason, Parents get into tight financial situations due to Financial Year closing in March (due to payments of various taxes). We await school's confirmation on this. 

Yesterday morning, we had about 50 parents coming in to meet the school & demand for the reason as to why they decided to hike the tuition fee by 50%. Above letter has been submitted. The following points were discussed

1. Tuition fee across classes has gone up by 50%

School says as per the new fee structure, school has merged all headers under which fee was being charged by school till last year. Hence all fee would be only tuition fee & is payable in 3 terms. Effective hike is 15% & school would give a circular to this regards, after consultation with management.

2. Copy of the circular released by CBSE to all schools was give & we did demand as to why school management took uni-lateral decision with consulting Parents, as in the circular ? Explanation has been sought by us from management.

3. School is an important element in our children's growth. Many of  the Parents are the experts in many fields & can share their experiences with children, thereby helping them & the school as well. This has been a demand by many of the Parents, to involve them in the over all development of school. We demanded for a open house where in we can come out with many constructive idea's to better school in every parameter.

4. We demanded for upkeep of toilets etc as its very important aspect in hygiene of children. Its school's responsibility that they ensure the toilets are clean & hygienic.

LETS WAIT TILL THURSDAY FOR SCHOOL TO GET BACK ON FEE STRUCTURE IN WRITING. IT HAS BEEN DECIDED UNTIL THEN, WE'RE NOT GOING TO PAY THIS TERM FEE.