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Editorial Nightmare Ahlam NAZIH

P ENCILS, erasers, glue, squares, kits, notebooks, scissors, textbooks... math, grammar, poetry, history, and geography... After a long day’s work,
The list hurts. This back-to-school season, parents are once again faced it is anything but a piece of cake. The last resort is to break your piggybank
with long bills containing dozens of items. School supplies required by for tutoring. For many parents, having to endure this scenario every year is
schools, purchased at high prices and whose use is not always certain. a nightmare.
In this inflationary climate, this hurts even more. Of course, parents have a duty to get involved in their children’s schoo-
Parents who choose the private system are doubly penalized. School fees, ling, to monitor their progress, coach them and guide them. But they can’t
canteen, transport, insurance... a real financial abyss that they are forced to improvise themselves as teachers, even though they’ve paid a lot of money
face without any support (education vouchers, tax exemption...). On top of for a service that is supposed to be complete.
all this, parents have to go back to school themselves, through their children. The truth is that neither public nor private schools today can claim to of-
They have to submit to the tedious exercise of homework brought home fer an irreproachable service, with a few exceptions. Nevertheless, if public
every day by their offspring. Faced with their little ones’ shortcomings, schools were more efficient, many households would not be up to their necks
parents have no choice but to take the bull by the horns, and dive back into in debt. For now, all they can do is endure, and drink the cup to the dregs. o