Mumbai: Want child's result? Cough up Rs 5,000; Borivli school tells parents

Pay Rs 5000 for your childs result this is what Borivlis St Annes High School allegedly asked parents to do A number of them who had gone to the school on Thursday between 8 am and 10 am to collect the result said the principal told them that if they wanted the result they would first have to pay for the new school building fund Finally when no amount of reasoning worked they protested and got the police involvedAlso read Mumbai Parents plan to strengthen protest against school fee hikeA parent whose child studies in the primary section of the school said The school was giving the result to only those who had made the payment The rest were told to pay if they wanted the result When no reasoning or argument worked with the school principal we protested on the premises and then approached the Borivli police to help usParents alleged that for the last three years they have been paying Rs 2000 for the building repair fund in addition to an annual school fee of Rs 30000 and a computer fee of Rs 1800 They added that they objected to paying for the fund only because the school had hiked itWe were told that the repair fund is not mandatory Yet we have been paying When for 201617 the school increased the amount we refused to pay After that the school started pressuring us Its shocking that for the fund the school tried to blackmail us with our childrens results said another parentAfter the 34odd protesting parents went to Borivli police station principal Sister Rosily was summoned after which she agreed to hand over the resultsA police officer said The parents did approach us but no official complaint was taken as they ideally should have gone to the education inspector When we called the principal she agreed to give the resultsSt Annes School in Borivli has been charging parents for its repairs since last year PicsNimesh DaveResolved but not quiteA parent however said The principal did agree to give us the results after the police intervened but when we went back to the school for it she told us to give in writing that if anything happened to our children due to the poor infrastructure there the school authorities wont be held responsible which is totally unfairAlso read Mumbai Parents to go on hunger strike against fee hikeThe principal too accepted that she asked for a written assurance from the parents who didnt contribute to the fundOur school is running out of funds In August 2016 with the PTAs approval we appealed to parents to fund the new structure We have also approached the state government The government has given Rs 15 lakh We need Rs 22 crore for new infrastructure said Sister RosilyIts a lie that we forced parents to pay for the fund in exchange for results Our only concern is students safety Hence we asked parents to give that in writingPresident of Forum for Fairness in Education Jayant Jain slammed the schools tactics If the school is running out of funds it should seek help from the state government Its the managements job to figure out some other way but they cant force parents to pay for the repairs The government should take strict action on such activities by the school he said