Fall of the Iraqi Education system (Yahoo Article)

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Yahoo Article on Iraqi Education


Highlights :

1) Educators fear, however, that the collapse in schooling will have some of the deepest repercussions for the country, leaving a generation with little education and little hope.

I very much agree with this statement it's undebatable.

2) Mousa Halim, principal of a high school in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, said a firefight several weeks ago between U.S. soldiers and the radical Shiite Mahdi Army militia outside the school sent students and teachers scrambling to take cover.

The school that's being sued for staging the fake gun battle should cite this as an example. Schools used to have nuclear attack drills and that will problably never happen. But shooting attacks do happen and stupid parents are against this and suing the school ??????

3) "The top priority was to send the students home without any casualties," he said. "We had to make them jump over the low wall at the back of the school instead of taking the risk of leaving from the main gate near the clashes."

Imagine that little girl who's faking emotional distress from watching brokeback mountain. Do you think her parent's would sue the school for even more if this happened ????

4) The general breakdown in society has also eroded traditional classroom discipline. Several students linked to the Mahdi Army threatened their teachers if they did not help them pass exams, Halim said.

John Belushi ( The Principal )
Michelle Pfieffer ( Dangerous Minds)
Hilary Swank ( Freedom Writers )

Would have this situation straightened out quite quickly.

5) A Quranic verse pasted over the blackboard in one class read: "God, make this country peaceful." Next to it was a picture of Muqtada al-Sadr and a quote from the anti-American Shiite cleric calling on Iraqis to unite to force out "the occupiers."

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6) He makes it to school only three days a week because violence often blocks his path. His grade point average has plunged from about 80 to 65, he said. Nevertheless, he hopes to attend college next year and plans to become a journalist to "report the truth and the misery of my people," he said.

Fox News will have openings

7) Though he seethes with envy when he thinks of the relatively easy life of students in America, he hopes eventually to get a scholarship there.

Will this be at the expense of an American Student's Grant, Student Aid, Scholarship....... Why do our students have to miss out. (Other than blowing up their school [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )