Parents, take responsibility

THE cutback on the Tuition Fee Free (TFF) funding in 2020 is a remarkable way to re–establish missing links between the parents and the government to educate children. Education for our children is a shared responsibility between the parents and government.
Such decision on the education budget allocation may cater for the partnership to recommence in 2020.
Parents have to take control of their children not only on financial accountabilities but the entire development of the child’s well-being in education.
There have been strong evidences of parental negligence in schools. Parents have lost focus as most of the school fees were paid through the TFF funding.
The challenges faced by schools such as late remittance of TTF funds, insufficient finance for infrastructural developments or closing schools due to no finance would be a thing of the past as parental component of the school fees would take charge of such encounters in 2020.
The O’Neill-Abel government shouldered most of the financial burdens away from parents over the last seven years.
Prime Minister James Marape’s government budget anticipates to see parents to pay some components of the school fees.
Nothing is free in this world so parents should be part and parcel of education for their children.

Jack Anis Kukiwa,
Lae