Shafan Ibrahim-Al-Qamishli
Sanaa, 15, is cut off 20 kilometers from her home in the town of Amouda in the northern city of Hasakah on the way to her school, Zaki al-Arsouzi, in the city of Qamishli, although the distance between her school and her self-governing Kurdish city Exceed only five minutes.
Despite Sana's suffering as a result of overcrowding at the school of Arsouzi, where the number of students per class is about 60, as well as the long distance they travel every day, Sana says she prefers to study in al-Qamishli "because self-management schools will not achieve her dream, Recognized".
Its self-administration prevents the town from being a pillar in Hasakah and is dominated by the Democratic Union Party (DUP); it has taught the system's curriculum from the first to the tenth grades in the cities and towns under its control.
| Fener prefers to study in his mother tongue in Kurdish self-management schools (Al-Jazeera) |
Double Books
Sanaa was forced to buy two copies of the third grade preparatory course so that she could continue her education at school. "When I leave my town I do not wear school uniforms, I do not carry books or even school bags, so I do not have to ask Asayish Kurdish) return home. "
Sanaa dreams of enrolling in Syrian universities and says that the certificate of self-management schools will not help her reach this goal.
Riyad, Sana's father, feels the suffering of his only daughter, but he prefers to send her to another city instead of a school only five minutes away.
Sanaa's motives for joining the schools of the regime do not convince her colleague, 14-year-old Fanner, who is from the city of Qamishli, who continues his eighth grade Kurdish language at the Al-Wafaa school of self-administration and prefers it to the schools of the Syrian regime. Follow my studies in my mother tongue ".
Sana complains that the lessons have not been well absorbed to cram dozens of students into caravans to accommodate more students, as well as problems that result from large numbers of students from different environments joining in a row.
But Fanner seems more satisfied, and continues to receive his lessons in a class of only 20 students. He is encouraged by his family. "We do not care about our language," he says. "It's the parents who draw the path and the place where their children learn."
| Directorate of Education in Al-Qamishli turned government centers into schools to meet the increasing number of students (Al-Jazeera) |
Similar reasons
Adnan insists on sending his daughter Salwa in the 10th grade to the Suez Canal secondary school in Qamishli, which is self-governing, citing the fact that he was unable to rent a private car to transfer it to a secondary school under the Syrian regime.
Fadi al-Ali is not able to enroll his son in private schools because of his high cost. He fears his son from the long road between his home and the schools in the security square. He had to send him to Salah al-Din Primary School in Qamishli.
The Joint Chairperson of the Authority for Education in Self-Management Samira Al-Haj said that the Authority has succeeded in attracting large numbers of students, and called on parents to have strong will and send their children to self-management schools because they care about their future.
Samira revealed that they supervise three thousand schools and 300 thousand students in all areas of the island under self-management, and said that a small number of parents prefer schools overcrowded system, and marvel at the fears of some of them not to recognize management approaches, and wondered in her interview with Al Jazeera Net "Was the inventor of electricity And the telephone of the holders of recognized certificates ?! ".
According to a source familiar with the Directorate of the system in Al-Hasakah, who asked not to be named, the government schools in Al-Qamishli embrace from the first to the tenth grade about 23 thousand students, noting that about 52 thousand students were affected between 2014 and 2016 as a result of the self-management curriculum Kurdish.