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01/07/2015
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The Procon State of Rio de Janeiro on the State Department of Consumer Protection and Defense, went to court with civil action against six bilingual schools, some of the guys from Rio de Janeiro, due to charging unfair fee. In some cases, the rates were practiced in foreign currency, which is prohibited by law. Local authority officers conducted surveillance operations in the teaching units and found cases where institutions charge such fees, as well as annuities and half-yearly installments provided for in the Federal Law 9870/99.
The American School of Rio de Janeiro, with branches in Gávea and Barra da Tijuca, for example, charges its students a fee called "Capital Fee" or "Unique Contribution" in the amount of US$ 6,500. The school claimed that the rate was for investments in technology, renovation of the buildings of the Campus and other projects. The School and Beneficent Association Corcovado (Deutsche Schule Rio de Janeiro), Botafogo, practice entrance fee at the school for new students in the amount of R$ 11,700.
The Society of Our Lady of Mercy (Our Lady of Mercy School), in Botafogo, snake called rate "Development Fund" to improve the institution, such as buying computers. A fee of the same name is charged by the British Association of Education (The British School) for the entry of a new student at the institution. The School Model Cambaúba, on Governor's Island, requires an additional fee when a student changes from series - the "odds-Party" - which ranges from R$ 3,500 to R$ 4,760. In College Cruise (Charity Humboldt Society), with units in the center and in the studied area, is charged new students candidates for the 1st year of elementary school I had to pay an extra fee called "Draw Description".
The action (0486229-02.2014.8.19.0001) seeks to grant an injunction to prevent the collection of these extra charges, not provided for in the annual or half-yearly installments of the defendants institutions. If not, educational intuitions cited in action will pay a daily fine of R$ 50 thousand. It also requires that it be considered null the collection of these fees in national or foreign currency, and payment of compensation, the most extensive and complete as possible, double compensation for material and moral damage caused by this abuse and condemnation of schools collective moral damages.
Source: Procon RJ
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