Lebanese
teachers have been promised that the draft law related to the pay scale will be
tabled during the upcoming cabinet session while parents have been threatened
with an increase in tuition fees that might reach 50% at some private schools.
Parents
began receiving text messages calling for protesting outside the parliament
next Monday as certain parents’ committees decided to take action in
collaboration with the schools’ administrations.
In this
context, Catholic Schools Secretary General Father Boutros Azar told LBCI that the
increases, if summed up, will not be less than 1,500,000 LBP for each student,
warning that the approval of the increase will cause a deficit in the teacher compensation funds.
In turn, the Head of private schools teachers
syndicate in Lebanon Nehmat Mahfouz told LBCI that the increase will not exceed
200,000 LBP, adding that a deficit in the teacher compensation funds will be
only caused by schools that do not pay their dues.