Private Schools in Marrakech Spark Controversy with Mandatory Laptop Requirement

On the list of school supplies for some private schools for this school year, a laptop is included. Some schools even specify the model.

These schools justify this requirement by the fact that the computer, whose price varies between 4,000 and 6,000 DH (depending on the establishment), has several features, facilitating the provision of distance learning, reports the daily Al Massae.

Too expensive, protested the parents, not at all convinced of this option. According to the latter, the real price of these laptops does not exceed 1,500 DH, and many of them are seizing the various regional directorates of National Education in the Marrakech-Safi region to demand an intervention, confides the Arabic-language daily.