While my secondary school fee-paying season ended long ago, I have since acquired many children along the road of life who maintain my contact with an expensive and thereby oppressive school system. To its credit, the Government, in the last few years, has been on the offensive pushing for standardised fees and granting fees subsidies for public secondary schools. The near abolition of school fees for day secondary schools has lifted a huge burden for many parents. It is however in these schools that one interacts with the school fees challenge. If we accept that education is the greatest opportunity for poverty cycle break, then we must invest in a more humane school fees system that inter alia reduces the costs of these mandatory extras.

Source: Standard Digital January 27, 2017 16:24 UTC