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| Students leave schools due to poor services in Deir ez-Zor |
| 2022-03-03 |
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – The children of Abdulwahhab Abdullah, a resident of the town of Abu Hamam, east of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, attend a destroyed school which located 500 meters away from his house. “The school suffers from many problems, it does not have water, the windows are broken and do not protect the children from the cold, as well as the heaters have been robbed,” Abdullah said. Dust fills the faces and clothes of Abdullah’s children due to the school’s rubble, “if the situation remained like that, many students would stop attending it.” During the battles between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Islamic State (ISIS), 60 schools were completely or partially destroyed in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor. The eldest son of Abdullah is in the fourth grade while the youngest is in the first, they both suffer from dust allergy, so he called on the concerned parties and those responsible for educational process to pay more attention to these problems. The towns and countryside of east Deir ez-Zor include about 600 schools, where about 212,000 students study, according to the Education Committee in Deir ez-Zor. Muhammad Aboud, the co-chair of the Education Committee in the eastern region, revealed to North Press that there will be a meeting in the coming period with the Education Committee in Deir ez-Zor. The meeting will focus on developing a mechanism for restoring the partially destroyed schools, after receiving several complaints from educational staff and the parents, regarding the impacts of the schools’ destruction on the educational process, according to Aboud. Students’ dropout is a major problem facing school administrations in the region, Aboud said. The educational staff is facing many difficulties, due to the destruction of the school’s infrastructure, according to Maha Ahmad, principal of Hawi Abu Hamam School, east of Deir ez-Zor. Hawi school has neither main gate nor fence, therefore “Sometimes students leave school and go home without telling us, we cannot control the students.” Beside these problem the school’s floor is not leveled and is covered with dirt, the same applies to sanitary facilities and bathrooms, Ahmed further explained. “The situation is very bad in the school, the teachers are suffering and can’t give any lessons when it is windy, some students stopped attending school because they are suffering from allergic or asthma.” Most of the school’s property was stolen, and local and international organizations contributed to the repairs after the residents returned to the city, where they worked to restore what they could, but that require a huge financial resource, according to local residents. Perhaps what Ahmad hopes at this stage, from the organizations and the Education Committee of the Autonomous Administration is to reconsider the course of the educational process, through reforming schools to facilitate the return of students to them. Reporting by Anwar al-Midan |
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