Private Schools in Morocco Defy Government, Opt for In-Person Classes

In the letters addressed to the parents of students, the directors of private schools assure the parents of having taken all the necessary measures to protect the students and teachers from the coronavirus, reports the daily Assabah. Physical distancing, both in the schoolyard and on school buses, will be respected, they guarantee. This means that the directors of private schools refuse to follow the Ministry of National Education which does indeed give parents of students, and not schools, the choice of face-to-face or distance learning.

These school officials had made it known that distance learning would have harmful financial, social and educational repercussions on basic education and on the stability of educational staff during the meeting of their representatives with the supervising minister.

However, this formula constitutes, in the midst of the epidemic crisis, a danger for students and their parents, as has been proven in Georgia and Germany, in particular.