SDF militia prevents Hasakah ‘s children from reaching schools affiliated to the Ministry of Education

HASAKAH, Sep.13, (ST)- For the 5th year running, the children of Hasakah governorate suffer from reaching the schools of the Syrian Ministry of Education that are far from their neighborhoods as the “Syrian Democratic Forces” militia seized most of their neighborhoods and imposed teaching curriculum which differs from the official one with the aim of reinforcing its separatist ideology. Moreover, some schools were also converted into military headquarters and prisons affiliated to militia.

Despite the challenges facing the children of the governorate, which are accompanied this year with the difficult living conditions resulting from the economic siege imposed by the West on the Syrian people, the will of the people of the governorate, their steadfastness, and their adherence to their national school curriculum were a message of challenge to those who are wishing to spread ignorance, backwardness, and division among the sons of the country to serve the occupier.

The child Raad and his sister Raghad, who came from the Aziziyah neighborhood on foot, traveled a distance of approximately 3 km to reach their school, noting that the school which is near their house was closed by militia gunmen several years ago.

The father of the pupil Heba came with his daughter on foot from the neighborhood of Gweran, which is adjacent to the center of the city of Hasakah, said that the “SDF” militia closed all the neighborhood’s schools near their houses with the aim of spreading ignorance and backwardness to control the ignorant youth and employing them in the service of its plans and the plans of the occupation.

He pointed out that the majority of the neighborhood’s children reject the militia’s measures and bear the burden of traveling to the city center schools which are affiliated with the Education Directorate to teach them the curriculum of the Ministry of Education.

The teacher Abdullah declared that the children of the neighborhoods that are surrounding the city’s center record stories of steadfastness and defiance through their adherence to the curriculum of the Syrian Ministry of Education and the rejection of non-national one.

He called on international institutions and organizations related to childhood to pressure the “SDF militia” to return the schools it seized to the Directorate of Education and to ensure the stability of the educational process in the governorate.

Basma Qaddour