PARENTS are unhappy about paying a month’s worth of school bus fee even though school is only in session for about a week this month, Kosmo! reported.
It was reported that most van or school bus drivers do not want to accept half or daily payment, and parents find this situation to be unfair.
A 41-year-old mother, Fara Khairi, said she had to pay the entire RM130 van fee for this month even though her son would only be attending school for a week.
“I had asked for a reduction in the fees before, but the driver asked whether I wanted to continue using his services,” added Fara who works as an administrator.
Fara further stated that during the last movement control order (MCO) period, she was asked to pay full fees until the government announced that bus operators no longer needed to collect fees from parents.
Margaret, 31, said she was also asked to pay for the whole month by her children’s school van driver even after she asked for half payment.
“The fee charged is RM100 for one person, so the amount I have to pay is RM200 for two children,” she added.
Abdul Izzat Wafi, 36, believes that there must be a win-win arrangement between bus drivers and parents due to the fact that both parties are impacted by the cost of living.
> A lorry driver from Kuantan who was given away to a foster family when he was an infant by his mother due to financial difficulties finally reunited with her after 28 years, reported Harian Metro.
The video of the mother and son reconciling went popular on social media after Nor Shafiqa Husin, the 28-year-old wife of the lorry driver, uploaded the video of their meeting.
Nor Shafiqa said that after seeing that her husband Ahmad Shazrul Nizam Zakaria’s efforts to locate his mother, Rahimah Mamat, were unsuccessful, she turned to social media.
She posted a picture of her husband’s birth certificate and an old identity card of her mother-in-law on a Facebook community group, and to her surprise, she eventually located her 50-year-old mother-in-law.
“I arranged a meeting between my husband and his mother and everything went so smoothly.
“I cried when I saw my husband hugging his mother because I knew he had been waiting for that moment for a long time,” she said.
● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
