The school has agreed to a further reduction in fees for the final term. This outcome belongs entirely to the parents who refused to stop asking for fairness during a difficult time. I am still processing this result and deeply grateful to all of you for sticking together.
July 8, 2020
Final supporters
Since the MoE has ordered to close all public and private schools for summer break from 7th of May due to Covid19 measures, AGS Muscat has to close their online learning too. The Summer school they started is, however creative and with all good intentions in mind, highly inadequate to justify parents to pay the full 3rd term tuition fee. The earlier 20 % discount doesn't cover for the loss of educational content. If we do the math: of the 42 days of learning only 13 are offered. This is 31% delivered services. So why should we pay for services not offered since the summer school is supposedly free? The purpose for this petition is to start a democratic and open negotiation to establish a fair price for all parties concerned. These are unpresedented times that require measures nobody has ever thought to be necessary. This is not in any way meant to disadvantage the school, but many families are struggling financially. We are just asking for a fair and transparent deal, so that we can all find confidence and consensus to reestablish a new foundation for 2020/21 academic school year.
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Reached 100 supporters
May 12, 2020
66 Comments
Tuition should be for 13 days only. Everybody is suffering during this period. The 20% discount for service we did not get is not fair. To be fair for both school and parents, fee for term 3 should not exceed 40%
Not fair to pay for service we did not get. Tuition should be for 13 days only. Everybody is suffering during this period and some people lost jobs or got salary reduction for the same work they used to do. School needs to understand the situation and propose fair reduction not one sided solution like 20% discount on service we did not get.
Alternatively, I propose to keep the exact same approach to remote schooling, as AGS did from March onwards and receive the full tuition fees as they claim (with the 20% discount already offered). Educational work should be continued and not substituted by the summer school plan which doesn’t include knowledge and skills required by teenagers.
My daughter as a KG student not even getting any advantage of online schooling since its very hard to convince them to sit and learn infront of a labtop so we never did the online learning!
To explain we are also parebts who had a discount by default and are not appleciable for this very much PR'd 20%discount, so yes, we are asked to pay full payment.
If term 3 summer school is OPTIONAL then so should be the payment!
Please be fair
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The school has agreed to a further reduction in fees for the final term. This outcome belongs entirely to the parents who refused to stop asking for fairness during a difficult time. I am still processing this result and deeply grateful to all of you for sticking together.
July 8, 2020
Final supporters
Since the MoE has ordered to close all public and private schools for summer break from 7th of May due to Covid19 measures, AGS Muscat has to close their online learning too. The Summer school they started is, however creative and with all good intentions in mind, highly inadequate to justify parents to pay the full 3rd term tuition fee. The earlier 20 % discount doesn't cover for the loss of educational content. If we do the math: of the 42 days of learning only 13 are offered. This is 31% delivered services. So why should we pay for services not offered since the summer school is supposedly free? The purpose for this petition is to start a democratic and open negotiation to establish a fair price for all parties concerned. These are unpresedented times that require measures nobody has ever thought to be necessary. This is not in any way meant to disadvantage the school, but many families are struggling financially. We are just asking for a fair and transparent deal, so that we can all find confidence and consensus to reestablish a new foundation for 2020/21 academic school year.
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Reached 100 supporters
May 12, 2020
66 Comments
I have been terminated from work, henceforth I want to withdraw my children from school and yet the school still insisted me to pay the full school fees for both of my children in order to receive the school transfer letter. This is so inhuman!
Tuition should be for 13 days only. Everybody is suffering during this period. The 20% discount for service we did not get is not fair. To be fair for both school and parents, fee for term 3 should not exceed 40%
Not fair to pay for service we did not get. Tuition should be for 13 days only. Everybody is suffering during this period and some people lost jobs or got salary reduction for the same work they used to do. School needs to understand the situation and propose fair reduction not one sided solution like 20% discount on service we did not get.
Alternatively, I propose to keep the exact same approach to remote schooling, as AGS did from March onwards and receive the full tuition fees as they claim (with the 20% discount already offered). Educational work should be continued and not substituted by the summer school plan which doesn’t include knowledge and skills required by teenagers.
My daughter as a KG student not even getting any advantage of online schooling since its very hard to convince them to sit and learn infront of a labtop so we never did the online learning!
To explain we are also parebts who had a discount by default and are not appleciable for this very much PR'd 20%discount, so yes, we are asked to pay full payment.
If term 3 summer school is OPTIONAL then so should be the payment!
Please be fair
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I have been terminated from work, henceforth I want to withdraw my children from school and yet the school still insisted me to pay the full school fees for both of my children in order to receive the school transfer letter. This is so inhuman!