The education sector in Egypt witnessed a painful incident following the guardian of a student set himself on fire, yesterday, Saturday, in an educational directorate in the north of the country, following his son’s school refused to hand him textbooks.
In the details of the incident, which were reported by local media, a man named “AM” poured alcohol on his clothes inside the building of the Kafr Al-Dawwar Educational Administration building in the Buhaira Governorate (North), in protest once morest what he said was “ill-treatment by the school principal and her refusal to hand over textbooks.” to his son.”
According to preliminary investigations, the man who set the fire himself is the father of a first-grade student, and that a number of employees intervened to put out the fire and were able to save him before he was transferred to a public hospital for treatment.
The wife said that the reason for what her husband did was the “mistreatment” he received from the school principal and the director of the educational administration, and that he was beaten by the security of the educational administration, not to mention the loss of their son’s file from the official records.
The wife added that following her husband’s accident, an employee from the school came and brought books with her. She said, “The fees have been paid, the file has been found and it is registered at the school.”
Immediately following the incident, the educational administration in Al-Buhaira governorate issued a decision to dismiss the principal of the aforementioned school and refer her to investigation for not handing textbooks to one of the students in the school and for “violating ministerial decisions and intransigence in this regard.”
During the past two weeks, the school year in Egypt witnessed a number of tragic accidents, including the death of a girl and the injury of 15 others following the collapse of a staircase in the Al-Mutamadiya Preparatory School for Girls in the Kerdasa Educational Directorate in Giza Governorate, and another died in the primary stage following falling from the third floor in a school in Agouza. in Giza because of what the officials attributed to “the stampede among the students while going out at recess.”