Hyderabad: Transfer certificate remarks leave parents in a spot

HYDERABAD: Following TOI report on schools affixing comments like ‘litigant parent’ on transfer certificates (TC) of students those who weren’t able to clear dues, it received multiple calls from parents who aired similar grievances. While some said they were handed out a TC for the previous year (2019-2020), others rued how the TC mentioned only a few months that they managed to pay the fee for.
Result: These parents are now struggling to admit their children in other schools because of an ‘irregular’ TC.

“The certificate issued to my kids by the management shows they studied in the same class for two years. While the TC is supposed to mention only the last academic year, it says 2018 to 2020,” rued P Shiva Yadav, whose children were enrolled in a private school in class 5 and class 6 in Ameerpet.
He couldn’t pay their school fees after he lost his job amid the pandemic in June 2020. “I tried to explain my situation to the management and urge them, time and again, to reduce the fee as the children weren’t using any of their resources. But they insisted on full payment,” he said adding how the TC issued by the school is of no use as he will now be compelled to make his children repeat the same class.
Like him, there are numerous others who are caught in a quandary. Neither are they able to continue with the same school owing to the pressure of fee and nor are they getting admission in a new school without a proper TC.
“It’s as if they don’t want children to get admission in any other school. Who gives TC for few months, when the child has been enrolled in their school for the entire academic year? Why are schools playing with the future of children,” said a parent of a class 6 student.
The managements of budget schools, meanwhile, maintained that in most cases they have reached an agreement with parents to collect only part of the fees and not the full fees. They even said that TCs are being issued without any trouble. “If parents are not ready to pay the fees at all, only then we are holding back TC. Otherwise we are accepting half fees or whatever a parent is willing to pay and are issuing TC,” said Shekar Rao Y, president, Telangana Recognized School Managements Association.