In an attempt to hold on to students and the payment of fees, private schools are trying to make deals with parents, offering more discounts, scholarships and other benefits.“It’s ridiculous. They reduced 3%, but before that they raised it 30% in the previous cycle,” said housewife Alicia Martinez, 37, who from the beginning of the crisis began struggling to support her two children in a paying school.
The pandemic has recently eased, but the government decided that infections remained too high to risk reopening schools. So students must start the new academic year with a home-learning program broadcast by major television networks until infection rates are deemed sufficiently low.The outlook has forced over 48,000 private schools to delay a return to classrooms and instead move online - a major setback for many centers whose reputation rests on their facilities.
At least 15 parents who spoke to Reuters in recent days said they had withdrawn their children from private schools to put them in the public system.
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