Lebanon: Ministry of Education prevents Syrian students studying in the official government schools

ARK News: In a shocking decision, the Ministry of Education in Lebanon prevented Syrian students from registering and studying in government public schools. Some students had been studying in these schools for five years so that most refugees could not send their children to private schools because they live in very poor living conditions.

Activist Mustapha Sheikho from Beirut said to ARK News that "the director of an official school in Beirut the capital prevented his children from completing their studies at the school where they had been studying for five years, he told him that the decision of banning came from the Lebanese Ministry of Education and that the decision included all Syrian students who live on Lebanese territory either for work or came to Lebanon as refugees.”

Sheikho said that "Most parents cannot send their children to private high-cost schools because most of them work in free and sporadic work and can barely afford their daily subsistence. This decision makes his children and other Syrian students out of the school walls.

Activist Mustapha Sheikho appealed the Lebanese Ministry of Education, Lebanese and international human rights organizations, UNESCO and humanitarian organizations for a fair solution to this important issue. The fact that the right of the children to study is guaranteed in the Charter of the Human Rights Charter and that their deprivation from Education creates a generation of illiterates.

M. Qadî

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