Why registration fee?

THE EDITOR: Thank you for giving me a little space in your newspaper. I would like to voice my concern about the registration fees at secondary schools. Why is it that the parents of children who have been allotted a place in a secondary school have to pay a registration fee? Is the Government getting a cut of these monies? If not why haven’t they done anything about it when the Government is placing the children in these schools? Many parents can hardly buy books to send the children to school, they have to buy uniforms and in most cases find monies for transportation and now this added fee to enter these Government schools/Government assisted schools.

What makes it worse is that a parent has to register a child at the school in which he/she has been placed in before he/she can request a transfer, and, on approval of this transfer, the registration fee is not refunded even though he/she will not be attending. What does free secondary education for all mean? I would like the Minister of Education to do something about this please.

EDNA COX
Belmont