Al-Marsad newspaper: The Director of Education in Jeddah, Dr. Saad Al-Masoudi, said that the percentage of students attending schools on the first day of Ramadan exceeded 97%.
Al-Masoudi added, in his speech to Al-Ekhbariya channel: “The attendance exceeded expectations, and the attendance rate exceeded 97%, on the first day of the month of Ramadan.”
He continued, “This indicates the great responsibility that education bears, represented in schools and families that cooperated with us in making Ramadan work a success.”
Al-Masoudi continued: “Ramadan is a month of work and seriousness, and therefore we want to instill this in the hearts of our sons and daughters, that working hours in Ramadan are normal, and studies must continue.”
He continued: “Everyone, teachers and students, is happy with this attendance return to schools, which we completed in Ramadan, and the school is crowded with its students in Jeddah Governorate from nine o’clock in the morning.”