The Malindi High School board has asked parents to pay Sh27,000 for each student as damages for property destroyed during school chaos last term.
Each of the 700 learners will pay for the reconstruction of a dormitory and library, and buying books burned in a fire incident.
The board also agreed that each student must clear fees and any other outstanding balances before readmission on Wednesday.
They are required to report back with new uniforms
including two shirts, two trousers, socks, shoes, two sets of bed sheets and two bed covers.
The board also said the students must undergo the interrogation process and be cleared by the disciplinary committee.
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But parents said they felt the school's management was demanding too much.
Sanga Barawa, who learned at the school and has four children there, noted he will pay a total of Sh108,000.
“I am a contractor...The cost of building a new library is not that high, after all each student has three books which were borrowed from the library," he said.
Barawa
told journalists in Malindi that he will mobilise patents to storm into the school and demand justice.
He threatened to move to court to block the board's decision if their grievances are not considered and the amount reduced to Sh10,000.
“It’s unfortunate that the management has failed to account for the damages before arriving at a conclusive figure. Some of the books the school has claimed were destroyed by fire are already in the hands of students,’’ he said.
Noting some students were being sponsored by foreigners as their parents were poor,
Barawa asked Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i to intervene.
He added that some of the students were forced to write names of teacher who may have been behind the unrest, suspected arsonists and schoolmates
who smoked bhang.
Principal Julius Changawa said by phone that the amount was reached after an assessment of the damage.
The school was among more than 100 others where facilities, especially dormitories, were burned in rampant cases of unrest.