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Parents raise concern about third term fees

The directive by the GES asked parents to pay the fees in instalment, as part of measures to ease the financial burden on parents.

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But President of the National Council of Parent Teacher Association, Alexender Yaw Danso, said parents need to know the exact amount and date due for payment of the fees to enable them to prepare and pay the required amount.

According to him, the concerns of parents are legitimate because not all the students will finish their WASCCE exams in the same month. He said others will finish in the middle of May while others will finish in April.

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In an interview with Radio Ghana, Mr Dansu said it will be unfair to ask all of them to pay the same amount of fees but admitted that the non-payment of the third term fees partially or fully is likely to pose feeding and other challenges to the administrators of the schools.

"Issues concerning parents, issues concerning our wards are not being addressed to the parents. This directive is not the first time, previous years, they were issued. Even last year the Director General issued a directive that those who are in default of payment of their fees should not be allowed to take their exams," he said.

"Now the U-turn that they shouldn't do such. Meanwhile, they are saying the third term fees should be paid in the second term and that we can pay in instalment. Today they are stating the exams and so the question we would want to ask is when is the deadline for the final payment, are they supposed to pay the full third term fees because not all the students are going to finish their exams at the same time.

"So if you ask me to pay full term fees when in actual fact some of them will be leaving by the middle of next month and some by the middle of April, it means you haven't covered the full them so why should we pay," he quizzed.

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Mr Dansu also asked the GES to calculate "exactly how much" student should pay than to say they should pay at all cost.

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