He feels low and shy of being still in the third grade instead of the seventh: shy Mocha student .. ambitious and creative abilities
English - Wednesday 25 September 2019 الساعة 04:25 pm
Mocha – NewsYemen.net
In a classroom at a private school in Mocha, Abdul Ilah Mohammadi sits with his classmates looking very shy.
This fourteen years old child, is still in the third grade of primary, while supposed to be in the seventh grade of basic education, and this reason, in addition to the distinctive height
makes him always feel ashamed, and may have heard harsh words from his mates made him that shy personality.
For years, Mohammadi - which is not his real name, but not to hurt his feelings - has been out of school after failing to continue his education as a second-grade student at his school, which Iranian-linked militias have turned into a military barracks in Hodeida.
As his family moved between several areas, he left him out of the classroom, but his arrival in Mocha two years ago gave him hope to continue his education.
One of his teachers told Newsyemen, when I enter the class, I notice the modesty, refraction and shame of being old enough to sit among children who are years younger than him, where he feels way older to be as a third-grade student.
"He seems to have been hurt by some of his colleagues, and although we are trying to convince him that this is normal, nothing has changed his shy personality."
His teacher is very sympathetic to a child who is suffering, despite his creativity, distinction and ambition, but she cannot do anything to ease what he may feel. Fear of her sympathetic words may turn out to have a different reaction that will force him to drop out of school, causing her to stop.
"She stopped talking to him about it and treated him as usual as a nine-year-old student, but it didn't change his condition, which has a daily impact on myself," she says.
Going to school may not go peacefully for a child older than his friends in the classroom sitting in one of his seats, and in the short time he passes from home to school, he may receive a flood of rhetoric that makes fun of his current situation, and nothing may have happened. It is as much a behavior as the character of that boy.
Many students in militia-controlled areas have been deprived of their right to education to this day after Houthi militias have turned their schools into weapons depots and military barracks.
Al-Mohammadi is known for being an ambitious child with creative abilities that explodes among his pressing desires to continue his education, but shyness from his current situation may change his ambitious convictions to force him to leave school.
