Private Schools Take Parents to Court Over Unpaid Tuition During Remote Learning

Summons have been sent to many parents of students who must appear before the courts, reports Al Ahdath Al Maghribia. These summons follow the complaints filed by school establishments that insist on the payment of tuition fees.

In a message on his Facebook account, the Union of Parents of Students in Private Education reassured the incriminated parents that a lawyer had been appointed to defend them.

Parents of students refuse to pay tuition fees representing three months of distance learning provided during confinement. They had explained their refusal by the fact that the contract that binds them to private schools concerns exclusively face-to-face teaching and not distance learning. For their part, private schools maintain their position.

In order to force parents to pay these fees, private establishments had in the meantime withheld the documents and certificates of success of the students. It took summary judgments, handed down by the courts, for those in charge of these schools to give up this practice.