Baguio City Schools Urged To Refund Unused School Fees

April 28, 2020 JUST IN

Baguio City schools are being urged to refund unused school fees after the Luzon-wide ECQ was ordered mid-March.

The Baguio City council led by Vice Mayor Faustino Olowan via a resolution is requesting private universities and colleges to seriously study the possibility of refunding school fees that were unused by students as a form of school assistance from the school schedule disruption.

Refunding the whole or portion of some school fees that were paid by the enrolled students will definitely help the families and stranded students to cope up with the ongoing ECQ and for them to be able to buy food, medicine and allow them to settle their bills among other payables.

The resolution stipulated that with the suspension of classes, the students are not able to physically use school facilities and avail of school services such as the laboratory, library and others.

The second semester or even trimester of school year 2019-2020 commenced last January but classes were suspended in various levels for both private and public schools from March 13 and beyond.

On April 8, 2020, Mayor Benjamin Magalong issued Executive Order No. 78, series of 2020 that suspended the classes for all levels in public and private schools as well as other institutions and centers of learning in the city until May 31, 2020.

The resolution emphasized that at the onset of the prevailing semester, the students and their parents or guardians have already partially or fully paid their tuition fees, miscellaneous fees and other schools fees covering the entire semester with the expectation that all paid services will be fully assessed and used by the students to aid them in their studies.

Moreover, the resolution noted that most of the students have either went home to their provinces or have been stranded in their boarding houses and apartments in the city and that they need whatever available assistance that are readily available for them to be able to survive the prevailing crisis while awaiting for their allowances from their parents and guardians.

According to Vice Mayor Olowan,  the approved resolution will be transmitted by the local government to the different universities and colleges in the city for their administrations to look into the viability of the proposal.

Artemio Dumlao