School Principals submit requests for not completing their duties, Syria’s Suwayda
SUWAYDA, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, six schools principals submitted requests for exemption from completing their administrative duties, to the Directorate of Education in Suwayda, south Syria.
“On Tuesday evening, me and five other schools principals submitted requests for exemption from continuing our administrative duties to the Suwayda Education Directorate, but they were rejected,” Talal al-Alami, 50, a pseudonym for a headmaster of a primary school in the city of Suwayda, told North Press.
“The position of the school principal has become one of the tasks that most teachers refuse, due to the lack of financial capabilities of the Directorate of Education in Suwayda,” he added.
Al-Alami pointed out that the schools only get a little stationery and papers, which puts the headmaster in the foreground to demand his school’s allowances, but without the government’s response, thus falling into embarrassment with the students’ families,” he added.
A government official in the Suwayda Education Directorate told North Press, “35 schools principals have submitted exemptions from completing their duties since the beginning of this year, and most of them were rejected because of the lack of alternatives.”
“Their request is morally justified, as the Directorate of Education in Suwayda suffers from a complete failure to provide material support to school administrations,” he added.
If their request are approved, the schools will fall into a great administrative vacuum, as they are unable to convince other teachers to become headmasters, according to him.
“Suwayda Education Directorate had appealed to the Ministry of Education to provide material support, without receiving any response,” he noted.
Since the beginning of the school year, Suwayda Education Directorate has received dozens of requests from schools principals for not pursuing their jobs as school headmasters.