Uganda, Feb. 7 -- Thousands of parents across the country have not been able to take their children back to school as term one opened having failed to raise the high fees being charged, a situation which has sparked outrage in Parliament and elsewhere.

The extent of the problem was brought into sharp focus in Kampala where, ideally, the more financially able reside, but less than 50 percent of school-going children were back in class.

Mr Charles Magnot, the director of education and social services at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), told a meeting of more than 100 head teachers and administrators of city schools yesterday that the situation "is bad".

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