Damascus-SANA
With the start of the new school year, the process of distributing textbooks continues gradually to be fully available to students during the first two weeks, according to those concerned.
SANA monitored the distribution of books in Tayseer Sawan School in the Mazzeh area of Damascus, where the Director of Damascus Education Suleiman Younes indicated in a statement to SANA, during his briefing on the reality of book distribution, that with the start of the administrators’ working hours in the week preceding the beginning of the school year, school libraries began receiving books from warehouses by communicating with Damascus branch of school books so that 60 percent of the books are in schools, so that the process of delivering them gradually begins with the students' working hours.
Al-Younis pointed out that any shortages were rectified during the first week of work, so that the student would get all the books during the first two weeks.
Al-Younis stated that the priority of distributing new books is for the first three grades “first, second and third” because the student is new and needs books that attract him and do not contain pre-solutions. To compensate for the educational loss of students as a result of the suspension of work at the end of last year early due to the Corona pandemic.
Regarding the new national series of English and French language curricula, the head of the Mezzeh educational oriented committee, Hala Hatem, indicated that receiving it is taking place in batches and gradually, noting that students are received with life skills activities to enhance their sense of belonging to the school and create an atmosphere of respect and familiarity between teachers and students.
In turn, Knaaz Shadoud, librarian at Tayseer Sawan School, indicated that in the event of any shortage of books, communication with warehouses and requesting additional quantities, noting that the distribution of English and French curricula books to students is taking place in parallel with the continuation of the printing process.
A number of sixth-grade students expressed their happiness to return to the classroom and receive the books. Alma Younis, Selena Ahmed, Rand Shehadeh and Hamza Taha indicated that they received a number of books dedicated to social sciences, mathematics, science and other subjects, some of which are new and some of them are round.
Rehab Ali