Dropout from students to teachers is a phenomenon that burdens education in Al-waziah

English - Wednesday 12 October 2022 الساعة 04:39 pm
Lahj, NewsYemen, Mohieddin Al-Subaihi:

At Al-Shaheed Al-Asbahi School located in the heart of Al-Shaqira, the capital of Al-Waziah District, West, Al-Taher Muhammad, the school director, finds himself unable to find real solutions to the dropout of a number of his teachers towards joining the military corps or going to work with other manual labors in search of the best return.

Al-Taher added that the process of teachers dropping out of the directorate’s schools is primarily economic due to the scarcity of teachers’ wages, which are inconsistent with the rampant high prices in the country.  This forced some of the teachers to leave the teaching corps, whether by looking for an alternative or leaving without notice.  In this, the school is obliged to inform him, either to compel him to return or to find an alternative to teach on his behalf.

Amin Al-Hatli, director of Al-Thawra School for Girls, located in Al-Hadara district, north of Al-Wazi'a, estimates the number of teachers who dropped out of his school at eight.  The school paid to cover this shortfall with alternatives by paying the volunteer girls a portion of the salaries of the discontinued teachers.

Al-Hatli sees the difficulty of imposing real measures on teachers in the current period unless accompanied by a real settlement of teachers’ conditions through raising salaries and releasing annual bonuses, and this is borne by the government, as this measure will provide an attractive environment for teachers to return to the classrooms and will be an encouragement for them to settle and provide better performance.

According to a census of the Human Resources Department in the Education Office in Al-Wazi’iyah, the number of those who have dropped out of the educational process, whether by engaging in military or other work, is estimated by more than thirty teachers out of a total of 200 teachers. They are the actual forces in 27 primary and secondary schools in isolating the four districts.

According to Ali Al-Darafi, Director of the Education Office in Al-Wazi’iyah, his administration has exercised its duties towards these interrupted people in light of the exceptionally difficult circumstances for teachers in the current period by addressing the higher authorities, where deductions were made for those absent and alternatives were found for those who preferred to go to other work because of the low wages they receive in  current period.

He added that more than 100 male and female volunteers have contributed a lot to covering the shortage and shortage in the district's overcrowded schools with about 13,000 students, and that his office is seeking, through follow-up with an organization, to extract a contract for them in exchange for their service in the past five years after the end of the war in the district.

According to Al-Darafi, the directorate suffered great damage during the war, during which five of the schools were affected by partial and total destruction, not to mention the loss of 35 teachers who were martyred during the war, whether in confrontations, shelling or landmines, and 33 others were injured in addition to psychological impact on their continuation in the educational process in light of the continuation of the educational process.  Hiring stops and annual teacher retirement.