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What went wrongA kindergarten principal in Pabna, in a Prothom Alo report

The furniture was sold to pay the rent, and the school closed anyway: 16 jobs gone

She kept the school alive for about a year after the closures. With no fees coming in, the furniture was sold to cover the building rent; the school shut anyway and its 16 teachers and staff lost their work.

This woman ran a kindergarten in Pabna and tried for about a year after the pandemic closures to keep it open. No fees came in from students while the building rent accumulated month after month, and in the end she sold the school's furniture to pay it. The school did not survive regardless: it closed, and its 16 teachers and staff lost their work. The report records that 55 of the 250 kindergartens across Pabna's nine upazilas went the same way, leaving about 800 of the district's roughly 4,000 teachers and staff jobless and some 20,000 dependants without that income. The president of the district kindergarten association told the paper that government support reached many sectors but not these private schools.

Lessons

  1. 1.A school in rented premises carries a fixed monthly cost that eats the owner's capital within months once fees stop
  2. 2.Selling the fittings to cover rent is the last stage before closure, because the school cannot reopen without them

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