Displaced children in a school in Sour, South Lebanon. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient Today)
Two weeks after public schools reopened in Lebanon amid the escalation of the war, more than 30,000 students out of the 300,000 expected are absent, according to figures provided by caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi.The same applies for several infrastructures. “Four hundred public schools are closed and some were destroyed because they are located in war zones in southern Lebanon, in the southern suburbs of Beirut or in the Baalbeck-Hermel region (Bekaa),” the minister explained. More than 500 other schools are hosting displaced people from these regions. Online education emerged as the only possible alternative, but it was slow to be implemented for technical and financial reasons. For parents, however, it's the worst solution: ‘Zoom’-ing in on a new school year turned upside down in a Lebanon that has been facing a...
Two weeks after public schools reopened in Lebanon amid the escalation of the war, more than 30,000 students out of the 300,000 expected are absent, according to figures provided by caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi.The same applies for several infrastructures. “Four hundred public schools are closed and some were destroyed because they are located in war zones in southern Lebanon, in the southern suburbs of Beirut or in the Baalbeck-Hermel region (Bekaa),” the minister explained. More than 500 other schools are hosting displaced people from these regions. Online education emerged as the only possible alternative, but it was slow to be implemented for technical and financial reasons. For parents, however, it's the worst solution: ‘Zoom’-ing in on a new school year turned upside down in a Lebanon that has been facing a...