Saturday, November 2, 2024

Private schools organisation still to meet over bill

The Secretary of the Conference of Heads of Private Schools, Christien Loabile, says that her organasation is still to meet to consider the bill that was recently passed in Parliament requiring that there be regulations on fees charged by private schools in the country.

The bill was tabled before Parliament by Botswana Movement for Democracy Member of Parliament for Francistown South, Wynter Mmolotsi.

Loabile was not able to say when they will meet to discuss the bill, which saw MPs from across party lines overwhelmingly supporting it.

So far, only one owner of a private secondary school, Steven Sorinyane, has openly supported the bill.

Sorinyane owns two private schools one in Kanye and in Lobatse. He is of the view that it is time that Parliament came up with such a bill as Batswana have been exploited by such schools for a long time.

Sorinyane said that people who run private schools in the country are in this totally for business as they are only found in places, such as towns and cities, where they know they will make money quickly then leave the country “in the middle of the night”.

Sorinyane also said that he thinks this bill should also cover private tutoring institutions, which are currently operated by “brief case businessmen and women” who also charge exorbitant prices for their services.

He said most of such people are foreigners.

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