Iraq school crisis: `Future is at risk'

[Barrett808]

Source: Associated Press

Iraq school crisis: `Future is at risk'
By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - Saif Abdul-Karim's path to school is often blocked by car bombings and gunbattles. Many of his teachers have quit. Most of his classmates have dropped out, fearing abduction.

As high school seniors across America giddily try on prom dresses and plan graduation parties, Iraqi students consider just making it to school a cause for celebration.

The security situation is so shaky that some schools have canceled graduation ceremonies and many have closed for weeks at a time. Education officials are in talks with the security services, tribal leaders and politicians to ensure schools are protected when students take final exams next month.

The education crisis mirrors the breakdown of nearly all public institutions across Iraq.

Educators fear, however, that the collapse in schooling will have some of the deepest repercussions for the country, leaving a generation with little education and little hope.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_graduates_of_war

[louis-t]

1. Looks like paying Halliburton $100,000 a piece

to slap a coat of paint on the schools was a waste of money.
:eyes:

[HockeyMom]

2. Looks like the future of Iraq is "secure"

when they cannot even educate the young. Yet, with Saddam they could all go to college, women included, without fear.

Maybe the US WANTS them to be a Third World Country to CONTROL them??

[Kagemusha]

3. That'd imply the US is in control in the first place.

I find that assertion to be doubtful. IMHO.