NEWS:  The Esusu Method Of Paying School Fees Has Been Introduced 

NEWS:  The Esusu Method Of Paying School Fees Has Been Introduced 

The present economy does not support such hard-stances school administration anymore. And, most schools that actually understand the environment they are operating in, have improvised accordingly.

Like we say in local parlance, the situation Nigerians find themselves now, warrants that everybody must borrow sense.The time many schools grandstand that no student is allowed to stay in class without having paid their fees fully is over.

Some sharp schools have just done that. They have introduced the Esusu method of paying school fees.It sounds funny, but they are getting by, pretty well with it.

That is the method some schools have adopted to help parents cope with fees payment in an economy where average income earners are living from hand to mouth.

In a school I served in Muwo, when the management saw the predicaments of parents due to what the economy had become. They introduced the Esusu style of collecting the money

“They made small cards with months and days available to parents.

Mrs Ogbonna Victoria, a senior secondary school teacher said:” The rate at which parents are withdrawing their children because of increased school fees is alarming most schools accept daily payment.

“Most of them take the children to public schools where they pay no school fees but register with basic requirements like tax clearance certificates among other things. “If a parent can afford the school fees, but can meet up with payment only thrice he informs the school management.

Parents in this our present economy, no longer look at what people will say or do for their actions.

“They go for what will give them peace of mind and enable them to save for other expenses.”