Parents might be required to pay more in the 2016 school calendar that is set to commence on Monday following inclusion of non-essential charges into school fees of most institutions.
According to a report aired on Citizen TV, some of the schools have added ridiculous vote-heads in their fee structures even after the government scrapped the same.
Some of these extra charges include; teacher motivation, academic improvement fund, parents association fee, smart goal programme, prize giving charge among others.
In a peculiar case, a school in Makueni county now requires that every student should pay Sh600 more to cater for a steel bucket specifically made in India. Kitondo Secondary School also charges Sh5,000 per student for a Scania bus fund.
This is one of the schools which have defied an order by the Ministry of Education to abolish any unnecessary charges which end up raising school fees to unmanageable amounts.
This comes barely a year after former Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi released a guideline of the amounts that would be charged by all levels of Secondary Schools.
According to regulations which were gazetted in February 2015, boarding schools were required to charge Sh66,000 which would still be subsidized by the government.
However, the report revealed that students in most of these institutions will now be required to pay up to Sh82,000 which is a total disregard to the orders given.
Kenya National Association of Parents Secretary-General, Musau Ndunda, has been urging the government to intervene in order to rescue parents from school heads who flout the Ministry's regulations.
