2023-08-03 14:33:09
“Lebanese Debate”
Growing concern among parents and the educational community regarding repeating the experience of the previous academic year, which witnessed a series of strikes in public schools. This prompted some parents today to resort to enrolling their children in private schools for fear of the ongoing strike in public education, as a result of the state’s failure to take radical solutions. To fulfill the demands of teachers in public schools. Can private education withstand all this pressure? How will this affect the future of public schools?!
In this context, the Head of the Teachers Syndicate in Private Schools, Nehme Mahfoud, confirmed that “there is a serious danger threatening the next academic year, especially public schools in Lebanon,” revealing a meeting he had last Tuesday with the caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, on this issue.
In an interview with the “Lebanese Debate”, Mahfoud said, “The Minister of Education in the caretaker government, Abbas al-Halabi, cannot alone bear the responsibility of students, parents and teachers, pointing out that education enters every home.” On this basis, I believe that Mikati called for a session of the Council of Ministers on August 17 to discuss the issue of the academic year.
He pointed out that “private schools are unable to absorb this large increase in the number of students who transfer from public schools to them, which opens the way for a major problem in the educational sector.”
He explained that “most parents are unable to enroll their children in private schools, and in the event that public schools are not opened, the fate of most students will be the street, and this will lead to the destruction of the country.”
And he stressed that “the next academic year needs to provide some basic ingredients for the start, including securing a transportation allowance for teachers and spending part of the salary in dollars, in addition to equipping school boxes and laboratories.”
Mahfoud also stressed the necessity of helping international bodies and UNICEF to contribute to supporting public education and providing financial support to public schools that are facing difficulties as a result of the current challenges and the high number of displaced people who consume these schools and cause damage to the schools’ infrastructure.
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