30 Minutes in the Life of a Amman School

[Raghda Butros]

I witnessed several episodes of school violence first-hand yesterday. Abuse of students by teachers, abuse by students of one another, and alarmingly, a look of sheer delight on the face of a teacher who was sent, with an iron rod, to discipline a sixth grader.

This was not the first time I'd seen this kind of behavior at a public boys' school, but in light of recent violent episodes at universities and elsewhere around Jordan, I decided to put pen to paper.

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[Nadine Toukan]

This is an epidemic which sadly happens all over Jordan, and in other Arab countries. See Corporal Punishment in Egypt’s Schools: A Personal Testimony. Anyone who thinks the education system can be fixed through reform is delusional. It needs a revolution and an entirely new structure where educators go through rigorous screening for eligibility to hold the honorable title of teacher or principle. No gray area, no middle ground on this one. There is nothing that should qualify a person to be an educator if s/he is devoid of humanity, morality and wisdom.

And thinking/decisions like this just feeds into the decay:
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