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| Taliban Recruiting Teachers for Zabul Schools: Official |
| 2015-07-04 |
| [Tolo News] An official in southern Zabul claimed the school teachers were being recruited and appointed by the Taliban in the Shah Joy district. Salaries of teachers were being pocketed by the Taliban as a number of forces of Evil have been appointed as instructors in the schools, Shah Joy district governor Wazir Mohammad Jawadi told TOLOnews. "Our schools are absolutely Taliban-led," Jawadi told a gathering of the provincial governor, education director and other local officials. "All the school teachers are Taliban and that with guns [inside the schools]." During the meeting, the Zabul elders also strongly criticized the teachers' hiring process and said many teachers were unable to teach. "Most of the teachers are not even six grade school graduates," an elder complained. Meanwhile the provincial education director, Rahimullah Ludin, denied the remarks and called them untrue. He declared all the appointments were based on the prevailing laws of Afghanistan. "I totally reject these statements because all the contracts of teachers are checked by the security agencies and criminal investigation departments," Ludin stated. These statements came about two weeks after a U.S. watchdog revealed what it said the "Ghost Schools" in Afghanistan. The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) exposed in its recent report that Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE) officials had repeatedly been profiting off of aids for the schools that actually didn't exist in the country. Former MoE officials were accused in the report of embezzling millions of dollars by providing fake school statistics to the donors. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "Most of the teachers are not even six grade school graduates," an elder complained. "All ya gotta know is in the Koran." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-07-04 12:38 |