Morocco’s Private School Enrollment Crisis: Parents Seek Alternatives as New Term Looms

As the start of the school year is fast approaching, parents no longer know which way to turn, reports Hespress. For Abdelmalek Ababou, first vice-president of the Moroccan National Federation of Parents’ Associations (FNMAPE), several parents are preparing to change schools for their children. They want to enroll them in public schools, but they are facing registration difficulties, including the lack of the insurance document.

Unable to provide this document, some parents plead for private schools to reduce their tuition fees as well as the monthly payments. Deaf to the calls of parents and fearing the scenario of the past year, they demand that parents pay the first installment of the current school year. Added to this are financial guarantees in the form of a (illegal) guarantee check that would include the total amount of the months of the current year.

According to the first vice-president of the Moroccan National Federation of Parents’ Associations (FNMAPE), private schools are not ready to understand the parents of students. In his opinion, "students represent a commercial fund for these establishments in the face of the indifference of the Ministry of National Education".