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August 20th, 2017 
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nsnbc : The Education Committee of Tabqa Civil Council, established after the liberation of the town from ISIS by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, plans to open schools by September. Most schools have sustained severe damage in the now 6-year-long war in Syria and many pupils lack basic education.
For that purpose of reopening schools by September, the committee visited the schools and started to register the names of the teachers that will serve in the new session of 2017/2018.
Thousands of pupils from Tabqa reportedly lack fundamental reading and writing skills due to the now six-year-long war in the country that has disrupted education and training in may places like Tabqa. Tabqa Civil Council’s Education Committee reports it has now started to take necessary steps for the opening of the schools.
From 2012 onwards, Tabqa’s schools had been under the control of ISIS and used as military bases and training camps for children. The U.S-backed, predominantly Syrian – Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) liberated the city of Tabqa on May 10 2017, after first liberating the strategically important and volatile Tabqa Dam.
Most school buildings sustained heavy damage when explosives were set of by ISIS, or during fighting between ISIS and the SDF which received air cover from the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition. Who exactly caused what dame to school buildings is currently unknown. What is known is that attempts are made to reopen the schools and to normalize the situation as much as possible.
4 schools in Tabqa have been completely razed to the ground, said Xanim El-Ferec, executive member of the Education Committee, who talked about the efforts undertaken by the city’s Civil Council. “We have inspected the schools in Tabqa, El-Cirniye and El-Mensûre, and laid the final touches to ready everything for the next session in September.”
That, he said, is made possible thanks to the voluntary service of a number of teachers, in educating new teachers and preparing the curriculum for the coming session, coordinated with Tabqa Civil Council. El-Ferec also recalled that refugees had to be accommodated in schools, and said: “Because most of the schools house refugees, the Education Committee will constantly check which schools will be suitable in the course of time to be reopened for the coming sessions.”
According to the Education Committee executive member, 5 schools are completely readied for this session. “We give our all to make sure that the whole school program can continue as planned. There are already 5 schools ready to be opened in Tabqa alone, and some others also in the settlements of al-Esenoberî, Ibin Zeydûn, Qurtibe, al-Qadisiye, Fayiz Mensûr and Kindî.”
The lessons range from elementary school to grammar and secondary school, and will be taught by new cadres of teachers and experienced ones as well, who all have the possibility to take place in the new education system. By now, 60 teachers that have enrolled their names at the Education Committee will be teaching the upcoming session, but the doors are still open for new entries. The means may be very limited, but Tabqa’s Civil Council is determined to prepare the ground for children to have immediate access to school education.
The Tabqa Civil Council was established by the PYD / YPG – dominated Syrian Democratic Forces and is part of the PYD / YPG plan to establish an autonomous or semi-autonomous federal construct in predominantly Syrian Kurdish areas liberated from ISIS. The Syrian government in Damascus welcomes initiatives to facilitate education but opposes plans to establish autonomous regions or federal constructs. The youngest of the school children are – most probably – still blissfully unaware of all of that adult political “conflict stuff” and its local, national and geopolitical implications.
CH/L – nsnbc 20.08.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/08/20/tabqa-civil-council-in-syria-plant-to-reopen-schools-by-september/
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