As the country prepares itself for another year of online education, parents have started raising questions on why schools across the city were not following the Supreme Court’s (SC) suggestion to reduce fees by 15 per cent. A group of parents has gone ahead and started an online petition seeking 50 per cent reduction in fees for the current academic year. More than 5,000 parents have already signed the petition.

Requesting anonymity, the principal of a Kandivli-based school said, “There cannot be a blanket suggestion like this because there are so many different types of schools. The entire fee issue started with those schools, which have high fee structures. But those who have affordable fees are struggling in this situation. Many such schools, like ours, already have an affordable fee structure, which was reduced further in the last academic year. Now it’s difficult to give a further cut.”