By our correspondent
LANDIKOTAL: A parent has filed a complaint with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority (KP PSRA) seeking action against the management of a private school for expelling his children.
A citizen, Ashrafuddin Pirzada, told journalists his two daughters and a son were enrolled at the Aziz Jan Institute of Learning in Hayatabad, Peshawar. He said he dropped his children off at the school but, after an hour, received a phone call from the school administration asking him to take his children back as they had been expelled from the school.
Ashrafuddin Pirzada said a school guard handed him over his son and daughters at the main gate.
He alleged that Aziz Jan School Principal Shazia Asad and Admin Officer Muhammad Shafiq Akram, without any advance notice, expelled his son Moeeduddin Pirzada (grade 4) and daughter Anam Pirzada (grade 1) from school.
He said he tried his level best to know about the reasons but was told that Senator Mohsin Aziz of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf, who is the owner of the school, had evolved the “two kids policy.”
Pirzada said one of his daughters was in grade 9 and on preparation leave for board exams and the rest of his two children were expelled from school.
He said when he contacted the school’s administrative officer, Muhammad Shafiq Akram, he was told that principal Shazia Asad had expelled his son and daughter from school as per the policy of the school, which enrols only two siblings.
Pirzada said the administrative officer did not give a cogent reason when he said why he was not informed of this policy at the time when he had paid the tuition fee two months in advance and even purchased books and notebooks for the new classes.
He alleged that school management was irked by his arguments and struck off his children, Anam Prizada and Moeeduddin Pirzada.
