<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The collapse that Lebanon is witnessing has not been confined to a single field of citizens’ lives, but has extended to reach all fields, depriving them of any horizon of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The collapse has struck the social dimension and deepened the vertical division between the Lebanese components, until security stability has become merely a long-range dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the economic level, the value and role of the productive sectors have evaporated, turning the country into a consumer society par excellence, lacking the condition of a dignified life. In parallel, the public social services are declining, so that what is available of them becomes a tool in the hands of the political leaderships and forces to reinforce clientelist networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the most dangerous is represented in the educational sector; after the broad renaissance Lebanon witnessed at the start of the 1960s, which made school education available to everyone thanks to the development of the public school and its spread across the nation, this sector is declining at an accelerating pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the city of Sidon, for example, there are four secondary schools and nine public primary and intermediate schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the stage of founding and institutional work that adopted scientific standards and expertise, the public schools witnessed remarkable prosperity and demand, owing to the advanced educational level of the teaching staff and the distinguished educational administrations, to the point that the name of the secondary school became associated with the principal who led and developed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\" The public social services are declining, so that what is available of them becomes a tool in the hands of the political leaderships and forces to reinforce clientelist networks \"
<\/pre>\n\n\n\nYet following the Taif Agreement and the entrenchment of the quota system based on the distribution of gains among the leaderships, competence declined as a main criterion for appointment and recruitment, in favor of the shares of the sects and the influence of the political forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The condition for appointing any principal became linked to the extent of their loyalty to the influential political or sectarian party, in an entrenchment of a reality that is rarely broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Sidon, Abeer Habli was appointed principal of the Mustafa al-Zaatari Secondary School on an acting basis, and Iman al-Shamia Serheyni was likewise appointed principal of the Thuraya Fares Secondary School on an acting basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About a year ago, the Directorate of Secondary Education set a date to conduct interviews and evaluate the candidates for assuming the administration on a permanent basis, among them the two principals tasked with managing the two secondary schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the Ministry of Education, under the cover of the reform mechanism for appointment, emptied the reform of its content through the way the committees for evaluating the candidates and their projects were formed; the Minister, Rima Karami, issued Decision No. 1711 tasking Dr. Mazen al-Qutub in his capacity as an educational expert on the evaluation committee, but he soon apologized for not completing the task after participating in a single session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minister also tasked Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Saleh with membership of the evaluation committee; he is a teacher on the secondary-education roster and contracted with the Lebanese University, and teaches at al-Zaatari Secondary School in Sidon and Ansar Secondary School. By virtue of this position of his, Saleh undertakes the evaluation of his acting principal Abeer Habli alongside the rest of the candidates (Hana Sanjar, Maryam Abu Zahr, Ali al-Dahni, and Mahasen al-Dahni), which raises serious questions about the objectivity of the evaluation, especially with the existence of about 16 complaints against Habli at the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As for the Thuraya Fares Secondary School, the tasking of Iman al-Shamia faced opposition from some parents and teachers, amid an estrangement between her and a number of female teachers. With the start of the school year, poor management drove four parents to transfer their daughters to other schools. And although the competitor Hana al-Yaman \u2014 a roster teacher for ten years who holds a legal background \u2014 obtained advanced points, these points dissipated in the face of the political interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And despite the candidates presenting their reform projects and most of them proving experience and competence according to the adopted points criteria, the appointments came to serve the interests of an influential political party in the city. And although the Minister of Education proceeded to temporarily freeze the decisions, she went back and reversed the freeze, confirming the acting principals on a permanent basis, in a clear adherence to the rules of the quota system at the expense of competence and the students’ future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\" The appointments came to serve the interests of an influential political party in the city at the expense of competence and the students' future \"
<\/pre>\n\n\n\nThus, al-Zaatari Secondary School witnessed a teacher evaluating his principal, who is the educational official in an influential political party that recently celebrated her official confirmation in her position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And at the Fares Secondary School, the administration was given to a principal who had previously worked to transfer female teachers in order to contract with others for political and regional reasons, with the support of a political party that had informed her that the position was decided in her favor even before the official results were issued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hope of the teachers for reforming and developing the public schools has dissipated in the face of the political quota-sharing that overthrew educational standards and norms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And however high the quality of the human resources, the administration remains the essential nerve of the institution. What is happening in Sidon causes a decline in the level of public education, and leads toward weakening it in favor of the private sector by undermining its administrative and educational competence.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The collapse that Lebanon is witnessing has not been confined to a single field of citizens’ lives, but has extended to reach all fields, depriving them of any horizon of hope. The collapse has struck the social dimension and deepened the vertical division between the Lebanese components, until security stability has become merely a long-range dream. On the economic level, the value and role of the productive sectors have evaporated, turning the country into a consumer society par excellence, lacking the condition of a dignified life. In parallel, the public social services are declining, so that what is available of them becomes a tool in the hands of the political leaderships and forces to reinforce clientelist networks. However, the most dangerous is represented in the educational sector; after the broad renaissance Lebanon witnessed at the start of the 1960s, which made school education available to everyone thanks to the development of the public school and its spread across the nation, this sector is declining at an accelerating pace. In the city of Sidon, for example, there are four secondary schools and nine public primary and intermediate schools. In the stage of founding and institutional work that adopted scientific standards and expertise, the public schools witnessed remarkable prosperity and demand, owing to the advanced educational level of the teaching staff and the distinguished educational administrations, to the point that the name of the secondary school became associated with the principal who led and developed it. ” The public social services are declining, so that what is available of them becomes a tool in the hands of the political leaderships and forces to reinforce clientelist networks ” Yet following the Taif Agreement and the entrenchment of the quota system based on the distribution of gains among the leaderships, competence declined as a main criterion for appointment and recruitment, in favor of the shares of the sects and the influence of the political forces. The condition for appointing any principal became linked to the extent of their loyalty to the influential political or sectarian party, in an entrenchment of a reality that is rarely broken. In Sidon, Abeer Habli was appointed principal of the Mustafa al-Zaatari Secondary School on an acting basis, and Iman al-Shamia Serheyni was likewise appointed principal of the Thuraya Fares Secondary School on an acting basis. About a year ago, the Directorate of Secondary Education set a date to conduct interviews and evaluate the candidates for assuming the administration on a permanent basis, among them the two principals tasked with managing the two secondary schools. However, the Ministry of Education, under the cover of the reform mechanism for appointment, emptied the reform of its content through the way the committees for evaluating the candidates and their projects were formed; the Minister, Rima Karami, issued Decision No. 1711 tasking Dr. Mazen al-Qutub in his capacity as an educational expert on the evaluation committee, but he soon apologized for not completing the task after participating in a single session. The Minister also tasked Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Saleh with membership of the evaluation committee; he is a teacher on the secondary-education roster and contracted with the Lebanese University, and teaches at al-Zaatari Secondary School in Sidon and Ansar Secondary School. By virtue of this position of his, Saleh undertakes the evaluation of his acting principal Abeer Habli alongside the rest of the candidates (Hana Sanjar, Maryam Abu Zahr, Ali al-Dahni, and Mahasen al-Dahni), which raises serious questions about the objectivity of the evaluation, especially with the existence of about 16 complaints against Habli at the Ministry of Education. As for the Thuraya Fares Secondary School, the tasking of Iman al-Shamia faced opposition from some parents and teachers, amid an estrangement between her and a number of female teachers. With the start of the school year, poor management drove four parents to transfer their daughters to other schools. And although the competitor Hana al-Yaman \u2014 a roster teacher for ten years who holds a legal background \u2014 obtained advanced points, these points dissipated in the face of the political interventions. And despite the candidates presenting their reform projects and most of them proving experience and competence according to the adopted points criteria, the appointments came to serve the interests of an influential political party in the city. And although the Minister of Education proceeded to temporarily freeze the decisions, she went back and reversed the freeze, confirming the acting principals on a permanent basis, in a clear adherence to the rules of the quota system at the expense of competence and the students’ future. ” The appointments came to serve the interests of an influential political party in the city at the expense of competence and the students’ future ” Thus, al-Zaatari Secondary School witnessed a teacher evaluating his principal, who is the educational official in an influential political party that recently celebrated her official confirmation in her position. And at the Fares Secondary School, the administration was given to a principal who had previously worked to transfer female teachers in order to contract with others for political and regional reasons, with the support of a political party that had informed her that the position was decided in her favor even before the official results were issued. The hope of the teachers for reforming and developing the public schools has dissipated in the face of the political quota-sharing that overthrew educational standards and norms. And however high the quality of the human resources, the administration remains the essential nerve of the institution. 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