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As suggested, these days the only use of social media in Pakistan is to let out ones bubbled anger and create awareness for a host of different causes. Another angry guardian took to Facebook and informed Pakistanis of one private school’s recent actions that have even shamed the alumni of the same system.
Titled ‘I AM ASHAMED OF BEING A BEACONITE TODAY‘ one man let his anger out by telling the country how Beaconhouse School System was torturing students mentally after parents had protested against the school due to the recent fee hike.
The content of the Facebook post reads: “Beaconhouse School has crossed it’s limit of being a Capitalistic money sucking corporation. Parents of students studying in many various private schools all around Karachi started protesting against the schools for increasing the fees of students by 13% every year, where the Law clearly states that a private institute can only increase the fees by max 5% each year.
After many protest the case was taken to court where court stated that until the decision is not taken the parents won’t pay the fees and the school can not suspend or expel a student for not paying the fees. Where other schools like City, FPS and HeadStart followed the court’s order BEACONHOUSE started their cheap tactics of scaring the parents by stopping the student’s result and suspending students from the school and now are not even giving the CIE Fee voucher.
When asked to give in written that you are not giving us the result the school clearly denied saying that the Regional Office has given us order to give nothing in written as they know that any written letter can be an evidence against them.
I was a part of Beaconhouse for 13 years and never thought that the school could do something this horrible. Just because their owners are ministers they think they can do anything and get away with it.
The saddest part is that the branch management of Beaconhouse are acting like puppets and doing nothing against this injustice, those people whom I knew for such a long time. If you are thinking how I know this all is because my sister is in the 11th grade in Beaconhouse and being her last year still we are standing against this injustice. I know many of you are Beacon alumni like me and want you guys to share this as much as you can to show that the alumni is against their school”
The post has been shared over 1200 times and people are condemning the school’s actions against the children, along with the illegal fee hike. Parents have been urged to not surrender to the illegal demands of the fee increment and stand strong in these tough times.
