A local monitoring group said Saturday that Syrian regime and Russia’s airstrikes have bombed out of service at least 430 schools in southern Daraa province between 2013 and 2018.
Ahrar Horan Gathering said the airstrikes conducted by Syrian regime and the Russian Air Force had bombed 433 schools out of 988 in the province.
The education sector in Daraa is still affected by armed conflict.
Hundreds of government schools and educational centers were subjected to massive destruction after the bombing of the regime and its Russian ally. Later, the regime soldiers looted educational equipment.
The report revealed that with the end of the military campaign launched by the regime with Russian support on Daraa in 2018, hundreds of thousands of residents returned to their homes in Daraa after they were displaced due to the ferocity of the battles and shelling, only to find many of them had their homes destroyed, burned or looted, including educational facilities.
Crowded Classrooms
The report indicated that the regime's budget failure to repair the destroyed public schools has led to overcrowding of students in the classrooms in the available and included schools, especially in primary schools, which causes major problems that negatively affect students and teachers.
The report confirmed that the regime did not pay any attention to the many obstacles facing the education process in Daraa, which formed an impenetrable dam that impedes its progress, and instead of carrying out its duty to restore damaged educational centers and provide them with modern equipment, its military forces seized a number of schools and turned them into military centers and headquarters, Ignoring the cries that called for improving the education situation.
Ahrar Horan monitored the regime’s transformation of ten schools into military headquarters for its forces, which are distributed over several different areas, including the Al-Thawra school in the Al-Matar neighborhood, which has turned into a parking lot belonging to the Military Security Branch.
The regime forces also seized the Third College of Arts of Damascus University (building universities) on the Al-Muzayrib-Yadoudeh road, west of Daraa, and the cultural center in the town of Jasim in the northern countryside of Daraa, in addition to the Afaq educational institute in the Sahari neighborhood in Daraa Al-Mahatta, which it turned into A prison known as Afaq Prison, located near Hamida Al-Taher Park.
The poor educational reality was accompanied by great challenges in the psychological aspect of students, which led greatly to the spread of school dropouts, in the absence of community care to guide them to the right path during the long years of war, not to mention the poor economic conditions that they are going through.
Zaman Al Wasl
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