Rs 55,600 admission fee, Rs 8,400 'parent orientation charges' at nursery school stuns internet

Picture of the notice on the school's fee structure for the upcoming academic year is viral. (Image credit: @DrJagdishChatur/X)

A nursery school's notice on its annual fee structure has stunned the internet as it listed a fee of Rs 8,400 as its one-time parent orientation charge and Rs 55,600 admission fee for children in nursery and junior KG. Shared by a doctor on X, the viral post has triggered a discussion on the country's expensive education system.

"Rs 8,400 parent orientation fee! No parent will ever agree to pay even 20 percent of this for a doctor's consultation," Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi, an ENT surgeon, wrote on X. "I am planning to open a school now." His post received close to 67,000 views.

8400 INR parent orientation fee!!!No parent will ever agree to pay even 20% of this for a Doctors consultation..I am planning to open a school now pic.twitter.com/IWuy3udFYU
Jagdish Chaturvedi (@DrJagdishChatur) October 22, 2024

Responding to the post, X user and oncologist Dr Vineet Govinda Gupta wrote, "People will spend for their children what they will never do for themselves. That is why expensive coaching centers, schools, colleges are proliferating like crazy." Another user Jiten S (@a_jiten) asked, "Rs 55000 Admission fees! Are they admitting in Ivy League preschools?"

"I completed my engineering in less than this!" commented Suyog Vyawahare (@suyogvyawahare), while Soumendu Mukherji (@SoumenduM) said, "Was lucky in our and children's times. Quality education at a reasonable price. Now it is pure dacoity in the name of education which is also pedestrian. The ownership and revenue sharing models of private schools and colleges tell us clearly about what ails the country."

Another parent shared that he has to pay a tuition fee of over Rs 2 lakh for his toddler for the academic year 2024-25.

Fees for KG. And these aren't even the top schools. pic.twitter.com/v5fLEWCJKcMelon Husk (@biryani_sucks) October 23, 2024

The exorbitant fee structure made X user Mayu (@Mayu_mahesh9) suggest: "Do homeschooling and pay that amount in mutual funds I am sure your son would come out as a crorepati."

Earlier this year, a real estate consultant in Gurugram has shared that he pays Rs 30,000 a month as his Class 3 son's school fees which the authorities keep increasing annually without offering any explanation to the parents. Udit Bhandari pointed out that if the CBSE school continues to hike its fees by 10 percent every year, he would have to pay around Rs 9,00,000 per annum as fees when his son reaches Class 12.

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