Schools shouldn’t force parents to buy bags- Madras HC

The prices of commodities are not the ones that increase with every passing year. Education too is becoming expensive. Almost all parents want their children to study in well-established institutions but some couldn’t bear it, yet they manage to pay.

But a very few schools, take up the business of selling school bags, lunch bags, pencil boxes and the fact is, some of them force the parents to buy these stuffs from the school itself.

The Madras High Court has ordered the Private Schools of Tamil Nadu to not force parents to buy lunch bags, school bags and other extra materials while they can ask the parents to buy school books, uniforms and shoes.

A woman filed case against a school in Coimbatore stating that for books alone it costs Rs.5000 and the school is further asking her to pay Rs.5000 for uniforms and lunch bags.  The Madras High Court judges have ordered that such practice of asking parents to buy school bags and lunch boxes in the school itself must be avoided and the same was notified to the Association of Private Schools.

This news has been welcomed by many parents who have paid unnecessary prices since a while.