International School Fees - Refund

[Khun Tae]

Does International School required to offer refund for current situation (study at home). Its has been awhile

since the school has been asked to closed due to Covid-19 until further further notice. School at S31 aren't

responding and we parents have to accept full school fees payment ?

[BobbyL]

The international school in Bangkok where I work has offered a small discount on fees in term 3. I doubt there is a law saying they have to offer a discount / refund as technically the school is still operating (albeit learning online). 

 

What is S31? 

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

I think they mean Soi 31 on that one big famous road that runs through BKK. I looked on Google Maps and oh man, looks pricey.

[Neeranam]

They should offer discounts as many international school are asking teachers to take a salary cut.

[BobbyL]

22 hours ago, Neeranam said:

They should offer discounts as many international school are asking teachers to take a salary cut.

Where have you heard this?

 

I know a good number of teachers at other international schools (at about 5 or 6 of the better international schools in Bangkok) and haven't heard of any news about reducing teachers salary. That news would spread pretty quickly amongst staff at other schools. 

 

We are still open and working therefore there is no way they can reduce salary.  

[Keyser Soze666]

Highly unlikely you will get a refund.

 

Many private schools (on the Thai calendar) are going back on July 1 but with no holiday in October this year.

[XGM]

They are not "required" but some do. We got a 15% refund on this period. Not much but better than nothing.

[Khun Tae]

On 5/20/2020 at 11:30 AM, XGM said:

They are not "required" but some do. We got a 15% refund on this period. Not much but better than nothing.

Do you appreciate ? Better than nothing ? 

[AlfHuy]

we got 50k reduction for the 1st term of 2020/2021

[Khun Tae]

3 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

we got 50k reduction for the 1st term of 2020/2021

Thats some kind of ''nam jai'' , Singapore school does not refund. 

[BobbyL]

5 hours ago, Khun Tae said:

Thats some kind of ''nam jai'' , Singapore school does not refund. 

As far as I have heard pretty much all of the main international schools are offering some reduction / discount to existing parents for the new academic year. 

 

I cannot imagine any international schools refunding the fees as technically the school didn't actually close. They just taught online due to the pandemic. 

[saakura]

I paid about 600k school fees (full year with meals, no school bus) for my child in Key Stage 2. The school promises 181 school days minimum, so this works out to about 3300 Baht per school day. Due to covid lockdown, 57 days were done on zoom (extremely low quality, i would say it was just 5% of real classroom). We were refunded a paltry 15000 Baht, working out to 260 Baht a day.

[Khun Tae]

On 6/26/2020 at 5:47 PM, saakura said:

I paid about 600k school fees (full year with meals, no school bus) for my child in Key Stage 2. The school promises 181 school days minimum, so this works out to about 3300 Baht per school day. Due to covid lockdown, 57 days were done on zoom (extremely low quality, i would say it was just 5% of real classroom). We were refunded a paltry 15000 Baht, working out to 260 Baht a day.

Interesting breakdown. Not a good relief package, Thats not fair to parents. Wonder where our anger can be heard.