Parents threaten stir against hiked school fees

October 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Kama Sutra, the Indian tome of love, is creating one huge stir in Florida with a school in Lee county choosing to teach it as a vocabulary word. A handful of parents are shocked about what their kids are reading in their history book with some saying lovemaking and the classroom shouldn't mix, ABC-7.com reported.

October 1st, 2009 School tells all parents their children are absentMARTIN, Tenn. — A student absence phone call that went to every family of students at a West Tennessee middle school caused an uproar.

September 7th, 2009 According to the sources, the White House is all set to release the text of the back-to school speech of the US President Barack Obama that has caused quite a stir and has triggered a wide array of speculations and controversies among a certain section of parents and pundits who are conservative to the core and by nature. The text of the 18 minute long speech that was delivered by the US president himself will be posted on the Website so that the people of the nation can go through the entire text before it is transmitted through the Internet to the school children.

July 28th, 2009 RANCHI - Around 30 students were forced to stand outside their school in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand even as their examination was underway Tuesday because their parents had failed to pay the monthly fees, an official said. The students of Holy Cross school were forced to leave the exam room as their parents had not paid the school fees for the month of July.

July 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Private school bus operators, on strike for the past four days against a government order making speed governors mandatory in all buses, Monday evening called off their stir after the Chandigarh administration formed a committee to look into their demands. The bus operators' association agreed to install speed governors by Sep 30, the new deadline set by the administration.

June 7th, 2009 CHENNAI - Parents and students here have complained about facing a lot of hardships and competition in getting admission to colleges of their choice.ost parents are fretting over the high capitation fees demanded by privately managed professional colleges. Both parents and their wards are also peeved with the attitude of the self-financing professional colleges.

May 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Distressed about the school fee hike and the government's inaction in the matter, parents in the national capital sold vegetables and polished shoes as a mark of their protest Saturday. 'What else can we do? Where do we get money for our children's school fee?' read a placard which hung around a parent's neck as he, along with scores of others who are a part of the Delhi Parents Council, took to the roads of Delhi's busy Chandni Chowk area.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Demanding subsidy in school fees, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a protest here against fee hike by private schools. A BJP delegation including senior leaders Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Vijay Goel met Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit on Wednesday and demanded immediate roll back of the hike.

April 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A delegation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Wednesday met Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and demanded relief for parents from the recent hike in school fees. The delegation led by senior BJP leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra explained the issue to Dikshit.

April 15th, 2009 NOIDA - A 12-year-old girl's report card was held up and she was prevented from joining the higher class in a prominent school here over failing to pay fees, the girl's mother alleged. The school, however, maintained that the parent had not showed up to collect the report card.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hike in school fees and then in development and activities fee in many Delhi schools has become a major cause of concern to many parents. Tired of the financial and mental stress this has put on them, the Delhi Parents Council has now threatened to make it an election issue if the government does not take up the matter immediately.

March 29th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Sunday decided to raise its post-graduate tuition fees for first and second year students by Rs.50,000 annually from the 2010 academic session. Fees for first-year students will be be increased from Rs.5.5 lakh per annum now to Rs.6 lakh, and that for second-year students from Rs.6 lakh to Rs 6.5 lakh, a senior official of the institute told IANS.

March 26th, 2009 KANPUR - Nearly 150 parents who took to the streets protesting fee hike in a private school here were arrested Thursday, police said. According to police, parents assembled in front of the S.D.

March 18th, 2009 NOIDA/GHAZIABAD - Private schools in the National Capital Region (NCR)- Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad - have withdrawn proposed fee hikes following protests by parents of the students. Schools, including Delhi Public School (DPS) Noida, Kothari International School, Marigold Public School and Rockwood International School, have decided not to hike fees to pay arrears to the teachers, Anup Khanna, the president of Gautam Buddh Nagar Guardians Association, told IANS.

January 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After complaints surfaced from anxious parents that several schools in the capital were sharply hiking fees, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to carry out random checks and audits in the 750 unaided schools that it recognises. 'Under the Delhi School Education Act, schools have no right to raise their fees without informing the MCD.