The school’s parents teachers association (PTA) committee chaired by Nixon Bugo has rejected a fee demand by the school's owner, South Africa’s private education firm AdvTech Group, while the institution's management insists that parents must pay to keep the institution afloat.
At Makini School, which was acquired from Mary Okello in May 2018, an advisory letter by the PTA committee to parents dated May 22 says they should not pay a single cent since the government has not communicated when the second term will start.
The PTA committee reckons this contradicts previous communications and reassurances from the school's management that e-learning is free.
The school management has also obstinately continued to disregard the concerns raised by parents,” reads the letter from the PTA committee.
In a letter dated May 20 to PTA committee, Jaco Lotz, international business development executive and Horace Mpanza, international business development manager maintained that e-learning remains at no additional costs to the parents as expenses associated with setting up have been absorbed by AdvTech, but added that online learning, however, is not free and cannot reasonably be expected to be.
