Sincere Mass Appeal !

Being a true Christian & knowing the real facts of the blown out of proportion happening in St. Joseph High School, Khadki with Sister Jonna being targeted by parents who have been seeking admission to the said school for the following academic session of 2009-10 through various means.

And to whom, all the unwanted social personae & political parties fighting the coming Election to grab this “Said News” and make Headlines with muscle power & disinformation of the event.

True facts – On the 18th March, there were some parents who have not paid the school fees for the current academic session for a varying period of 3 to 12 months duration. The school principal has instructed all parents to pay it before the year-end exams or to meet the school authorities & teachers to clear the dues. Some parents met, paid the fees & took their wards with them, a few kids were waiting in an adjoining room. In the mean time the SSC papers have come through postman, so Sister Jonna was busy in signing the papers & collecting it for the exams to be held .At the time, some parents took the snaps of kids waiting in the room with the help of media, who was on the lookout for some sensational piece of news & supported the parents, without knowing the facts. Nobody bothered about the SSC students appearing for the exams. People should pause and give thought to an important fact. If their electricity, telephone, tuition fees & monthly salary and the like are not paid in time, wouldn’t some action be taken? Was the school wrong in taking action to recover fees due to it? It seems one of the parents who had a grudge for not getting admission to the school took the smooth revenge of involving a parent in the trap whose kid was among the said 25 students, mentioned in Mirror and Times. If the school is not strict in discipline, how can it maintain the high value in education & life standards. Of which one of the parents have said that “These people are not giving admission to our kids, we will see & fix them rightly” (all said in hindi). You must be wondering how this all story is known to me in detail, sorry to say my kid is not studying in the school but we happen to listen to a statement in the church by Sister Jonna with right facts. For which she was arrested for a day, today it is St. Joseph School, tomorrow it would be some other school in your neighborhood, Wake up people and try to realise the facts and support it.

Leave the school to function with their core principles. Do the media have to intervene in all such matters? If fees had been paid in time, all this could have been avoided. Why are these people so adamant to make their wards study in a Christian school & not in a Government school?

I personally appeal to all people in Pune to join the signature campaign in support to Sister Jonna & other schools,preventing the politicization of school administration.