Inspection board rejects the decision to allow failed students to move up a class and students protest

Students of Tripoli secondary public school for girls organized last week, a sit-in in the school’s courtyard, to protest the decision of inspection board which rejected the earlier decision issued by schools administration to increase the average of 22 students from 9.4 to 9.5, in order to allow them to move up a class. The administration explained that it took that decision in view of the hazardous location of the school in the area of clashes between Bab Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, adding that frequent clashes resulted in regular and prolonged disruptions of classes during the previous academic year. For its part, the school’s parents’ commission issued a statement, in which it supported the claim of students and demanded justice. The statement also pointed out to the recent decision by the government to issue unconditional affidavits to all baccalaureate students in Lebanon without consideration of their actual performance. The girl students decided to escalate actions if their demands were not met, while threatening to resort to the full suspension of classes in their school.
Source: Al-Mustaqbal 3 October 2014