Education Minister Ronald Thwaites says school administrators must ensure that they monitor the fees being charged for graduation exercises.
A report in the Sunday Observer newspaper again highlighted the exorbitant costs associated with graduation exercises for children as young as five years old.
The Sunday Observer report quoted the President of the National Parent Teachers Association NPTA, Everton Hannam, lamenting the increasingly high graduation costs facing parents.
Mr. Hannam has called on parents to boycott the exercises, saying they are nothing but a fundraising event for the schools.
Mr. Thwaites says his Ministry has made it clear that graduation exercises should be low key.
President of the Association of Principals and Vice-principals, Stanford Davis says parents must speak out where they believe that the costs are unreasonably high.
Mr. Davis says parents must also ensure that they are a part of the graduation planning process.
Antoinette Shakespeare Dubidad for Nationwide News.
