so that is school fee in ADVANCE abi?

Lagos State government should mind their own business. When a parent takes his child to a private school, a contract is entered into between the parent and the owners of the private school. Since no parent is forced into such contract or forced to reamin in the contract, I do not see how it becomes the concern of Government. The issue of 3rd term fees for students in examination classes is not as simple as government is making it. Most parents do not want to pay 3rd term fees for JSS 3 and SS3 students because most of the term is spent on writing the final examinations. On the other hand, examination bodies say the schools must not prevent debtor students from writing their examinations. In all these, no one considers that Government does not give running grants to these schools. Teachers are employed and paid based on the number of students in a school and when two whole classes fail to pay a term's fees how are the schools expected to pay their workers? Or are the schools not to pay their workers during 3rd term? Perhaps they should pay their workers half salary? It is for this reason that most schools have devised a means of collecting the contentious 3rd term fees: Most schools charge 50% of 1st term fees along with first term fees and the balance is charged with 2nd term fees. So it is not a question of private schools sourcing for funds. Government as regulators of private schools should not be biased when parents complain to them about any thing they consider unethical in the private schools. Government should tell the whole world how they will assist private schools to recover unpaid fees in the event that the students refuse to pay. And before anyone says the schools should simply wait for results to be released and they should not release such to affected students, we must realize that candidates no longer have to depend on schools for their results. The results are often displayed on the internet for all to see.