Zero preparation for distance education … and up close

There is no indication in the official school and high school data that the school year will normally start on October 12. The rectors are left to face all the educational challenges, especially the material ones, of “indulgence and divine thrust without being guided by any plan or clear vision”, according to one of them, since “the Ministry of Education insists on becoming a beggars “, referring to the delay in the payment of school funds. . Here, one can imagine the embarrassment of a public school principal who would take “twisted” paths on his way to work to avoid facing creditors from gas stations, libraries, or stores where they currently purchase necessary supplies, especially masks and tools. sterilization.

More than shame, the head of the southern educational region, Basem Abbas, did not hesitate to support a trend by some administrators in the south to close schools and deposit their keys in the Ministry of Education if funds remain empty, because this reality will mean a threat to the public health of students and teachers.
“Ali Baal” has outlived school funds for the past two years. Just a few days ago, the comprehensive education program to educate Syrian refugees “blessed schools with some” healthy materials “to prevent Corona.
Fund fees exceed income, causing a deficit, so what is required of these funds specifically?
All expenses that may occur to him to manage the affairs of the public schools. The funds cover the salaries of the guards and school workers, what they owe to the National Social Security Fund, the rights of mechanization workers, the cost of insuring students in emergency accidents, the costs of electricity, heating, water, maintenance, stationery, chalk, cleaning materials, office and electronic tools, photocopies, documents and extracurricular and sports activities. During the “Crown” era, masks, sterilization materials and thermometers were added.
The study begins under very difficult circumstances, according to the head of a school, whose school fund contains no more than 17,000 Syrian pounds alone! He says that paying part of the installments will not be enough for long to pay off accumulated debts, or to cover urgent needs due to high prices.
“Manage your situation” is the most common phrase principals hear as they prepare for an unclear academic year. They say that the educational administration lives in a virtual world far from reality, “which explains their demand that we provide a seat to each student who comes to us, and at the same time we are prevented from diversifying classes on the pretext that to This leads to a contract with new teachers. But if a new contract is necessary, then it must be achieved at the expense of school funds, municipalities or civil associations, and not at the expense of the ministry ”, explains one of the directors, who is excluded, amid the high demand for students by public school, the application of social distancing that this imposes. Crown ». The director seems convinced that “we are left to our own devices in an academic year that will be stillborn. The problem is not limited to “broken” boxes of tens of millions, but at the beginning of the educational process itself, as the principal of a large school states that “we have not received any guidance on the programs that are used in urban education and in online, neither our teachers and students have received any training.The electronic version of the official textbook is interactive and, as far as hope is concerned, since many obstacles block access to it.

Urban Education The Ministry’s response to the desire of private schools to justify charging tuition

Some administrators are certain of the difficulty of adopting distance education in public schools due to various considerations, including the lack of tablets and telephones, and the blackout of electricity and internet, and all the calls for help made by the minister in this regard continue to scream in the void until now. Urban education is also concerned with the application of the health protocol, which includes many complications, not only in the classroom, but also on the roads, the principal has no authority over the owner of the private bus that takes students to and from the school. school. Students do not have hard copies of the textbook. One of the directors appeared to be categorical: “We are not prepared, neither for online education nor for urban education,” noting that accreditation of urban education does not exceed the Ministry’s response to the desire of private schools to attend classes. , to justify the payment of tuition. At the same time, the principals do not hide the difficulty of public school students to deal with the platform of “microsoft teams” that is approved by the Ministry of Education, which made them adopt individual initiatives agreed between the administration, teachers and parents, in order to reach the largest possible number of students, especially WhatsApp and activities on paper. .

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