The Anjuman Sunnat ul Jammat Association (ASJA) has come out in defence of the exorbitant $3,000 registration fee for new students of ASJA Boys’ College, San Fernando.
A document from the school was shared on social media and this led to furor over the payment of registration fees, in spite of the fact that the Education Ministry has prohibited such.
The ASJA document requested a contribution of $3,000 from parents registering their children for academic year 2023/2024.
According to the letter signed by acting principal II Faied Ali, this fee will cover the cost of a registration package to be collected on July 6 (PE T’shirt on orientation day), security fees, office fees, full-time ancillary staff salaries, part-time ancillary staff salaries, examination fees, lab fees, co-curricular club fees, general school maintenance and technology education fees.
General Secretary of ASJA Rahimool Hosein in a GML report, assured that the fees were voluntary.
He said that government-assisted schools are underfunded and need support.
“The money must come from somewhere. It’s agreed that the Government give an allocation for ancillary staff for recurrent expenditure and whatnot but as I said, it is not sufficient. The playing field between the government schools and the board schools is not level,” he said.