Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:35:11 +0000 Hillcrest Secondary School asking pupils to pay K1, 200 each for school bus Dear Editor, A FEW weeks ago, St. Mary’s School in Lusaka was in the news over exorbitant project fees. This time it’s Hillcrest Secondary School in Livingstone. The school is charging K1, 200 for a school bus they want to buy. What is very painful in this is that they are refusing to give last year’s Grade 12s’ their statement of results if they do not pay this amount. Imagine a pupil coming all the way from the Copperbelt or other faraway provinces to pick their results only to be turned back because they have not paid this amount. The question is why force pupils that have left the school to pay when they will not even benefit from the use of this bus. Can the Ministry of Education tell the nation why parents are being […]
