Özet:

The main purpose of this research is to reveal the views of parents on the service and fee policies of private schools in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year and the fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year, after the COVID-19 pandemic started to occur in Turkey as well as face-to-face education was suspended in private schools. The research was carried out in parallel mixed design. Two different samplings were taken in the study. The quantitative sampling of the research was created with the simple random method whereas the qualitative sampling was created with the maximum diversity sampling technique. 143 parents participated in the research. As a data collection tool the researchers created and used the "Parents' Opinions on the Income and Financing of Private Schools During the Pandemic" form in which quantitative and qualitative questions were combined, Findings obtained in line with the opinions of parents were examined under the themes of private school education expenditures of households, status of student enrollment agreements in private schools, student enrollment to private schools, services not covered in private schools and the refund policies of private schools for these services, state support to private schools and reduction in expenses of private schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.. According to the findings, private school parents find private tuition fees high in the 2020-2021 academic year. Parents of private schools especially find food / book / stationery / overhead fees and online tuition fees higher and think that private school fees have increased more than the family income increase. For this reason, a commission consisting of lawyers and educators that has no organic ties with private schools should listen to the requests of both parties and act as a mediator for the reconciliation of private school parents and private school owners.

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