Brookhouse School Parents and guardians can now breathe easy after Justice Weldon Korir has directed that they pay 50 percent of school fees proforma.
Brookhouse schools have further been ordered to suspend online classes for students in Kindergarten up to Year 4 during this COVID-19 pandemic period.
The Brookhouse school management who are the 1st respondents is to file and serve their responses to the application and hearing upon service with the pleadings and submissions.
The respondents are listed as the Directors of Brookhouse schools (1st respondent), Brookhouse schools (2nd respondent), the Attorney General (3rd respondent), and the Education Ministry (4th respondent).
Parents of Brookhouse schools moved to court to protest the institution’s requirement that they pay full fees for this term despite children learning online from their homes which require the parents to pay for internet and feedings at home.
The parents swiftly moved to hire lawyer Ahmednassir Abdullahi to represent their cases in the courts seeking to pay only 30 percent of the usual school fee.
The Brookhouse parents through Lawyer Ahmednassir argued that offering of online classes at the same fees rate as regular school terms amounted to a contravention of consumer rights that violate Article 46 of the Constitution.
The parents also argued that the quality of education conducted through email and the unregulated online platforms added to the 20-minutes of free Zoom lessons by the school was wanting and was not commensurating to the fees being paid by parents.
“That comparatively, other schools offering a similar curriculum have made a considerable discount to parents in view of the deleterious effects of Covid pandemic,” court papers read on the case filed by Brookhouse School parents.
Brookhouse school, which has branches in Runda and Karen offers a British Curriculum which is often associated with the affluent in the society.