IRAQ: Insecurity threatens to leave students with late start

[sabra]

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=48529&SelectRegion=Middle_East&SelectCountry=IRAQ

IRAQ: Insecurity threatens to leave students with late start


BAGHDAD, 10 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - The start of the academic year for schools and universities in Iraq could be delayed by widespread insecurity, especially if a surge in terrorist attacks derails or delays the constitutional drafting process, according to local government officials.

“If the situation of insecurity in the country worsens still further and there is a delay in the presentation of the new constitution, we are going to be forced to delay the educational year to guarantee the security of students countrywide, as well as of teachers and other staff," said Ahmed Abdul Rahman, a senior official in the Ministry of Education.

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A deteriorating security situation in Iraq has caused parents to fear for students going to school, and also increased teachers’ concern for their own safety, according to Abdul Rahman.

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The school year is due to start on 11 September but may have to be postponed to the end of October, local officials suggested. By then, they hope, tensions around the constitutional transition and the insecurity currently prevailing may have eased.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. Don't they know that the insurgency is losing steam?

Just yesterday Condi said so. I think this is where I'm supposed to say something about how much easier it is to see the violence and bombing and not focus on the quiet (it really is to, it's so quiet it's as if it's not even making a sound) political progress that's going on in parallel.


Those poor children, the lives they must be living, and these are the ones who are lucky to still be alive.