Some teachers at a primary school in Waterloo are calling on parents for help.

They made this call at a special meeting organized at the school’s ground.

About a week ago, senior and junior teachers at Liverpool Islamic Primary (LIC) school asked parents to be helping them by regularly paying up the school “development fees” of which they are required to pay monthly.

“We urge you to pay that development fees early. We will have to pay our teachers who are not on government’s payroll,” says LIC’s deputy headmaster.

He was addressing a number of parents on a Sunday 25th May 2025.

“Government is not paying most of us monthly, and so we need this money. But only three pupils have paid the Le 25 asked for each student to pay.Yet you don’t want to pay just this small amount of money,” he said.

The deputy headmaster told parents and guardians of pupils at LIC on how their non-payment of the development fees is affecting their work.

Reacting on the above issue, a parent of five, said his children are not improving on their academic work.

He said he needed the teachers to “put pressure” behind the pupils in the school including his.

“My children don’t study at all at home. I wonder if you often go about monitoring them properly in school,” he complained.

Responding to his comment, the deputy headmaster of LIC said the burden to discipline the children equally lies on parents themselves.

“You need to check out the books of your children at home. Even if you are not educated pretend to be by regularly checking out your child’s work or children every day at home.They will get scared if you do so. They may think that you know or learn something, and so they will become afraid and will be serious with their studies,” he said.

Liverpool Islamic Primary School is a community school whose teachers are almost not all approved by the government.

As a result, the teachers said that is affecting their work greatly especially when parents are refusing again to pay early the development fees which is used to run up the school and to pay other teachers not approved.

The school has opened up a kindergarten but it is having a poor turn out.

“We need your maximum cooperation to helping us get more kids enrollments,” says the aunty of the school.