The strike of Lebanese public school teachers is entering its eighth week amid a severe economic crisis in the country that has caused the Lebanese pound to lose more than 90% of its value against the US dollar. and salaries for workers in the sector, while tens of thousands of male and female students live in grave anxiety about their future in the light of the ongoing strike of teachers and teachers demanding payment of their dues and the incentives they promised.
Samira Gavish, a student of the second department of the undergraduate public school, told RIA Novosti: “After the New Year holidays, we studied for only one week, after which the strike began, and now we take only two classes in natural subjects. in other subjects we learned nothing from them.” This will affect them, especially since official exams are just around the corner.
For his part, the head of the Basic Education Association, Hussein Javad, says that the collapse has occurred in the educational body, noting that “professors and teachers, wherever they find opportunities to leave their jobs and emigrate, are abandoning education, and some of them filed deposit requests, which is a legal issue that has caused them to stop their work for a period of one to two years to assess the situation, and some leave the country without permission, there are large cases of emigration and many cases where professors and teachers have been hired under contract. out of contract and this has created a new problem for us which is that we are compensating teachers and teachers from the school fund as people to be used this year and we are also hiring people who lack competence and experience and it affects our educational level.”
