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23 Schools In Trouble For Conducting Illegal Extra Lessons

1 year agoWed, 10 Jan 2024 06:12:04 GMT

23 Schools In Trouble For Conducting Illegal Extra Lessons

Twenty-three (23) schools countrywide are accused of turning away learners over unpaid tuition, demanding fees in United States dollars and conducting extra lessons, among other charges.

The 23 schools are Parirewa Primary and Secondary Schools, Kudzanai Primary, Kuredza Primary, Kuwadzana 6 Primary, Allan Wilson High School, Chinhoyi 2 High, Mhanyame Primary, Chirorodziva, Tafara Primary, Helwyn Primary, Biri Primary, Kasimure Primary, Maumbe Primary, Magunje High, Norton Intellect Primary, Strathdon Secondary, Negomo Secondary, Mhuriimwe Secondary, Tendai Primary, Glenview 2 High, Chiri Government and Hatcliffe High schools.

NewsDay reported that the charges included demanding cash for extra lessons, conducting illegal extra lessons, turning away pupils over non-payment of levies, demanding exclusively US dollar fee payment and hiking fees without approval from the Government.

Primary and Secondary Education Minister Torerai Moyo visited several schools in Harare on a fact-finding mission on Tuesday.

He visited Oriel Boys High School, Eastridge Primary School and Makomo Primary School in Harare.

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Speaking during the tour, Moyo reiterated a government directive that no learner should be turned away over non-payment of school fees.

He also warned schools against withholding examination results for learners’ failure to pay school fees. Said Moyo:

The contract for examinations is between the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) and learners (candidates), on school fees, the contract is between parents or guardians and the school.
No results should be withheld and no learner should be turned away from school regarding fee payment.
Schools must find other ways to get the tuition fee from parents and guardians. This is not to say parents must not pay school fees.

Moyo said schools selling uniforms at their premises should not force parents to buy the uniforms if they feel they are expensive. He said:

I have received reports of some schools forcing parents to buy uniforms from them.
Parents and guardians are free to purchase uniforms where they find them cheaper.
If your school is innovative (by producing) uniforms, the price should be reasonable and not by force.

In a statement issued yesterday, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education said some schools were defying the Government directive to charge only approved school fees and levies.

The Ministry also said some learning institutions were charging school fees and levies exclusively in foreign currency, forcing parents to purchase school uniforms and stationery exclusively at their schools and withholding results for Grade 7, ‘O’ and ‘A’ level candidates.

It reminded schools that they are bound by the procedures to be followed when making school fee adjustments according to Secretary’s Circular No. 1 of 2023.

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14 Comments

bhangi · 1 year ago

Also in manicaland maxools hobho ari kubiridzira pliz help

Mambo vebhora · 1 year ago

Warren park 1 primary mukadzi waDeputy anotorova ma lesson so hazvina basa izvok

Vybz Kartel · 1 year ago

I have heard about non-formal classes in schools, especially in Harare and Chitungwiza. Could somebody please explain why such arrangements exist in schools.

💅Rudo · 1 year ago

@Vybz Kartel, non-formal classes anopindwa nevana vane vabereki vane mari. Mukurasika papi nhai vatezvara.

critikal · 1 year ago

yakudla pakasungirirwa kwaaaa

zamhu · 1 year ago

MASIRIRIRA TANGENHAMO PRIMARY SCHOOL YE PA CITUNGWIZA

huchi murume uyu · 1 year ago

huchi

Anonymous · 1 year ago

If out of the 9 800+ school in Zimbabwe, so few schools are holding paid extra lessons, it has no effect. You left out many schools that are in this practice. Instead you should have named the few schools that are not doing so and give them accolades. Vana vanobhadhara more kuextra lessons than they pay to the school the whole term. Some extra lessons are held in the classroom during normal teaching time. Others are held in teachers' houses 7 days a week. A teacher with 60 pupils will pocket +/- US$1 200/ month saka US$300 iya from government is change. Mar T. Mar is my name.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Sure the contractual agreement on payment of approved fees and levies remains with the parents/guardians and the school. However, there is another contract which the Ministry is conspicuously silent about.. Ministry is obliged to pay Basic Education Assistance Module [BEAM] money to school, but has not done so for the past two years. If the Ministry is in breach of a contract what makes it competent to Police others. Ministry and ZIMSEC do not allow children to write examinations unless examination FEES are paid. Zvasiyanei with a school that withholds results. Cde Torerayi Moyo, let us be consistent. We don't want to kill standards in the name of populist pronouncements. If free public education is now with us, let it be known and government take responsibility. Otherwise, children at private schools will continue to receive quality education at the expense of those at public schools. This is BOTTLENECK EDUCATION SYSTEM which was there during the colonial era smuggled back. Mwana waMinister ari paprivate school panobhadharwa fees before entry into the school premises. Tikada hedu kufadzana nekusabhadhara, vana vedu ndivo vachashaya dzidzo and they will not compete favourably nevana vake after school. Vedu vozoswera vakuita zvemutoriro vake vari pauniversity or pabasa. Sorry if step on someone's toes.

payfees · 1 year ago

fees ndoikutodzingirwa mwanahaasimafunnies

Dhodha · 1 year ago

Pay teachers a respectable wage and get rid of this scourge naturally. Vanotodawo ku relaxa vachiona TV after work vanhu ivava

There can · 1 year ago

Never be a respectable wage, mari haaigutwe, even there are to be paid so much $1250 something, they would make noise about being incapacitated that's Today's teachers these years

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Teachers now have a dangerous sense of entitlement and no amount on offer will assuage their appetite for money. And this at the expense of learners and parents who are forced to sizeable amounts of money to sustain an imagined lifestyle by most Teachers.