After Rosary school, it's the turn of Crescent High School and Hume McHenry High School to face parents' ire. PTA members of these two schools have decided to strengthen protests against the school management for hiking fees. Mateen Mujawar, president of PTA at Crescent High school, said the parents have decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike from September 27. "Like the Rosary parents association, we would go on an indefinite hunger strike outside the Director of Education Office. And we wont stop until the government agrees to introduce a law on regulating fee hikes in private schools and puts an upper limit on fee hikes," said Mujawar. A few weeks ago parents of children studying in Crescent High School had protested as the fee had been hiked from Rs 11,000 to Rs 16,000. However, a Bombay High Court decision on fee hikes in private unaided schools allowed managements to hike fees on their own with no interference from government as long as there was no profiteering. Angry parents from Hume McHenry High School who had protested over fee hikes at the school last week too have decided to resort to strikes. "We had been told by the school management to wait for sometime before we resort to any drastic steps. But we haven't heard anything except shallow promises. If our issue isn't resolved within two days, then we will be left with no option but to resort to hunger strikes. We will block roads leading to the school," said a parent representative requesting anonymity. He said the parents would meet tomorrow to discuss the course of protests if the school failed to respond.

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After Rosary school, it's the turn of Crescent High School and Hume McHenry High School to face parents' ire.

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