Uniforms business not for principals

Uniforms business not for principals

TANGERANG (JP): The mayoralty's education and culture office
has banned all high school principals from involvement in the
provision of school uniforms and textbooks.

Office chief Muhyi Syarifuddin said yesterday that the move
was aimed at cutting bureaucratic procedures in order to provide
cheaper prices.

Students will be allowed to wear their old uniforms and are
not required to buy new ones for the coming school year so as not
to further burden parents, he said.

Syarifuddin also called on principals to use their discretion
when it came to charging tuition fees.

"Students from very poor families may be exempted from the
fees," he said. (41/jun)