He was the Minister of Education in the caretaker government, Judge Abbas Al-HalabiDistance education was permitted for schools with an obligation Schools Who chose in-person education by signing a pledge to bear responsibility for any risks.
The media advisor to the minister explained, Albert ChamounIn contact with the “Sky News Arabia” website: “This decision came due to the challenges of distance education, pointing to the lack of electricity and the Internet, and the lack of preparedness of the educational staff.”
He added that the Ministry of Education, in cooperation with UNESCO, will work to train more than 11,000 teachers to improve the quality of digital education.
Psychological impact on children
And about exposure children In Lebanon for experiments War And trauma and psychological impact. Psychologist Nizar Al-Ghawi tells Sky News Arabia that “children who experience raids need intensive psychological support, as they suffer from constant anxiety, insomnia, and nightmares, which impairs their ability to concentrate and learn.”
In this regard, many families expressed their concern about sending their children to school in light of the ongoing bombing.
Siham, the mother of one of the students, says: “I do not want my university son to go to university in an area close to the raids. The raids do not have mercy on the roads and towns adjacent to his university.”
While Musa Fares, one of the parents, believes that the failure to provide alternatives to distance education led to students being forced into in-person education despite the risks.”
Music for entertainment from raids
For their part, schools seek to improve conditions by providing entertainment activities and playing music during recess to relieve students’ tension. However, the educational sector faces logistical challenges such as a lack of basic resources, which increases pressure on teachers and administrators.
Lawyer Maya Jaara, legal advisor to the Union of Parent Committees in Private Schools, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia, “The importance of blended education lies as a compromise between safety and the continuation of education.”
She stresses “the need to support students psychologically and guide them to overcome the consequences of war.”
Jaara added, “Because of the possibility of hearing some of the strikes carried out in some areas adjacent to the southern suburb of Beirut, cases of terror occurred in some schools that rely on education, which led to panic among some students, especially since crying is contagious.”
She explains, “Schools are required to deal with what is happening in the best way, provide protection and psychological follow-up, supervise students, reassure them, listen to them, support them if necessary, and take appropriate measures.”
Jaara concludes, “In schools, psychologists can supervise students in a correct manner, better than parents, who often lack experience and knowledge in dealing with such events.”
She pointed out, “Some schools organized fun activities to distract the children, and the teachers also played music during the ‘opportunity’ – the break – and this helped and is helping to mitigate the psychological damage and its consequences.”
A deeper social vision
Speaking to Sky News Arabia, social researcher Wadi’a Al-Amiyouni stressed: “The necessity of providing psychological and social support programs for students to mitigate the effects of war.
She explained that the psychological pressures resulting from bombing and displacement negatively affect children’s mental and psychological development, which requires urgent intervention to enhance their psychological and social stability.
She explains, “Learning during war causes painful experiences that affect the child’s mental, psychological, and social development, such as psychological stress, depression, and chronic anxiety, due to the constant fear of violence, attacks, and displacement. These children therefore become more vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which causes feelings of Frequent panic and nightmares as a result of being surrounded by bad news about war, attacks and their devastating effects.”
She concludes, “This greatly affects the personal identity of children. They may feel that they may lose a part of themselves due to the loss of the family, home, or environment in which they were raised. Not to mention the feeling of social isolation and withdrawal they have due to the fear of being harmed, or even because of the feelings of displaced children.” They lose the ability to adapt to the “new world” around them and may exhibit aggressive and rebellious behaviors as a result of the anger and psychological pressure they suffer from, and difficulty adapting to the host societies.
