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Schools yet to take a stance

COIMBATORE: Private school managements have a new mathematical equation to solve. On one side of the equation is the increase in diesel price. On the other is the transport fee collected from parents. And there is a mismatch. The challenge before the schools is how to balance the two sides. And it is a rather difficult challenge, concedes R. Visalakshi, president, private school managements' association.

The schools are wondering what to do – whether to pass on the burden to parents or absorb the raise without passing on the burden to parents.

The first may be possible because the fee determination committee headed by Justice K. Raviraja Pandian said the committee's recommendation on fee does not include transport fee. This means that the managements are at liberty to increase the transportation fee.

Ms. Visalakshi says that the chances of schools increasing transport fee are very remote because most of them have already announced the transport fee for the year and collected the same from parents as well. “Going back to the parents at this stage with a revised fee may not be prudent,” she reasons and adds that even schools that collect fee on a term-basis are unlikely to pass on the burden. On an average the schools collect between Rs. 6,000 to Rs. 10,000 a year as transport and that varies depending the distance between house and school. She says the schools have, more or less, no choice but to silently bear the raise and wait for a year to announce a revised transport fee.

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