Huge sums of money were spent...corruption controls the file of school buildings

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[size=52]Huge sums of money were spent...corruption controls the file of school buildings[/size]

[size=45]The student (Salah) walks long distances to reach his school, as there is no school close to his home in Al-Muthanna Governorate.[/size]
[size=45]Salah Ali, a middle school student, said in an interview with Al Mada: “The school where I study lacks many services. The classrooms lack (ceiling fans), and the window glass is broken and without maintenance.” He added, “There is no qualified or suitable school for study, and students improvise long distances in order to reach schools that are less harmful than the rest and with acceptable services. Most schools are devoid of even health facilities.”[/size]
[size=45]Salah continues, “There are not enough seats for students to sit because there are many numbers in one row, which forces some students to complete the lesson standing.”[/size]
[size=45]He explains, “The curricula have not been fully distributed, while most students cannot purchase them from libraries at their exorbitant prices.”[/size]
[size=45]Government “corruption”.[/size]
[size=45]For his part, educational expert, Faqar Al-Fadil, said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that “Iraq suffers from the issue of a shortage of school buildings in various governorates, due to corruption and governmental negligence, especially in the Ministry of Education. There are huge sums of money spent since 2003 until this moment on projects, most of which are They were not completed, and some of them were fictitious projects and nothing more.” He added, “There is a significant increase in the number of students coming to schools,” noting that “Iraq needs 8,000 schools and perhaps more, and approximately 2,000 or 3,000 schools are on the verge of collapse and pose a great danger.” He continues, “The funds spent from the budget to build schools are either small or huge amounts that include theft and corruption, and even today Iraq is witnessing the existence of mud schools and caravan schools, as the concerned authorities have not taken any real action toward them.”[/size]
[size=45]He explains, “There are schools where classes are still in the 3-shift system, due to the large and overcrowded numbers of students within one class, and all of this will lead to the spread of diseases and the student’s failure to comprehend the academic subjects.”[/size]
[size=45]He hesitated and planned[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that school administrations implemented systems of dividing shifts into two and three in order to accommodate the largest number of students, due to the large shortage of buildings that does not keep pace with the number of students.[/size]
[size=45]The effects of the delay in the work of the educational institution began to be exacerbated by the significant shortage in the number of schools, the forced adoption of a double-shift system, and the lack of equipping them with books, chairs, etc., which forced many families to bear these burdens.[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Education announced that 400 schools will enter service this year, which will contribute to alleviating the pressure on the number of students (as it put it), but it actually needs about 8,000 schools to accommodate the number of students, whose number is approximately 11 million students at various levels.[/size]
[size=45]In 2020, the Iraqi government agreed with two Chinese companies to build a thousand schools in each governorate, to confront the shortage in school buildings, but the Parliamentary Education Committee confirmed earlier that the completion rates of those schools did not exceed 10%.[/size]
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