BACK TO SCHOOL

The summer holidays are over and children have started resuming back to schools. A lot of the schools here in Abuja have hiked school fees with a lot of unnecessary fees added to the school fess. Do you have to pay caution fess every new session? What about medical fees?

A new style for schools now is to ask for development fees every term or every session as against once throughout the child’s stay in the school.

I think if we start to attend the Parents Teacher’s Association of the schools and give them a voice, most of  the schools will relax on this fees hike and all sorts.

Have you ever asked yourself why you are sending your child to the school he or she is attending right now? The basic for education is to increase in learning. Every other reason comes second. Based on this, can you ask yourself the following questions:

1.    Is the choice of school my child is attending based on the quality of education the school provides or it is based on class?

2.    Can I continue to afford to pay the school fees based on the hike in school fees?

3.    Can I continue to fund the child’s lifestyle and expectations imbibed from sending this child to this school?

4.    Apart from the quality of education, does the school also groom good children and not just spoilt children?

It is also important that as a parent, we collect the teaching curriculum for each child’s class for the year and periodically monitor the progress of each child based on this curriculum.

A good child is a child that is well rounded in arts, culture and academics so It is also important that we encourage our children to participate in music, drawing or any extracurricular that we think can build a well rounded child.

We also need to monitor the health of our children during this period so as to know when they catch any infection from school.

Wishing all parents a great school term.