A warning from the parent and guardian committees in private schools.. Here are its details

The Union of “Parent and Guardian Committees in Private Schools” indicated that “in reference to the news reported today in the local newspapers and the statement issued by the Teachers’ Syndicate in Lebanon, which stated that an agreement had been made between the Union of Private Educational Institutions and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Elias Bou Saab, on amendments starting From the next academic year at the beginning of October, “including the suspension of Article 2 of Budget Law 515/1996 for a period of three years related to the division of incomes between operating expenses and salaries…”, in the complete absence of representatives of the Ministry of Education, the head and members of the Parliamentary Education Committee and the Union of Parents and Guardians Committees. In private schools, he holds knowledge and news No. 787/2020, the first defender of the rights of parents’ committees, parents, and guardians in Lebanon.”

Accordingly, the union saw in a statement that “this meeting and the new attempt it concluded from repealing Article 2 of Law 515 aims to disrupt the effects of the aforementioned Law 515 and overthrow the rights of parents’ committees and allow schools to escape any oversight and give them an undeserved acquittal for the violations they committed.” This is a serious threat to the law, especially by inventing funds that are not subject to any kind of oversight and imposing school fees that violate the law under various names, and for the illegal profits it has made over the past years, especially during the past two school years.”

While the Union warned against “the persistence of attempts to legalize private schools’ fraud and circumvention of the law, their evasion of imposing any financial control, their rejection of any financial liability release of any kind issued by any party, and their continued failure to declare their tuition fees paid in dollars under various names,” it stressed that it He will confront “these attempts through escalatory steps that we will announce later.”

The Union kept its meetings open to keep pace with every development and to confront “the desperate attempts to confiscate the rights of parents and students and evade the application of the principles of good governance, especially the principles related to financial transparency.”

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