A group of 27 parents of grade one and kindergarten students at Immaculate Prep in Kingston have expressed outrage at the school board’s denial of their pleas for discounted fees for online classes and for barring children’s access to the Zoom portal for non-payment.
One parent said that she has had to miss job opportunities to stay at home and assist her six-year-old child with accessing classes.
“In our opinion, the child is at home, so your overheads at the school would have decreased,” said the parent, who requested anonymity for fear that she or her child might be victimised.
The group of 27 dispatched a letter to board Chairman Ethan Sinclair, but the parents said that the school has not been amenable to budging.
“It’s like he’s saying, ‘They are just wasting their time sending me a letter because nothing will change’, so we decided not to pay the school fee,” a parent said.
