Only a few days separate students from joining their schools for the new academic year 2024/2025, an entry that is characterized, according to parents, by continued high prices, teachers’ participation in statistics, and increasing activation of leadership schools.
In this context, Nourredine Akouri, President of the Federation of Parents and Guardians of Students in Morocco, said that during the current school year, “parents are betting heavily on pioneering schools,” considering that the participation of teachers in the census “will not have much impact,” pointing to the continued high prices that are exhausting the pockets of families, especially the middle class.
Akouri said in a statement to Hespress: “This year, we expect to expand the base of pioneering schools to reach 2,600 schools, including 60 preparatory institutions.”
The speaker listed the benefits of the leadership schools to Hespress, saying that they: “include specialized teachers, and there is no room for one teacher for French and mathematics as is the case in other schools, not to mention that the number of students in the class does not exceed 30.”
The head of the Federation of Parents and Guardians of Students in Morocco explained that “the textbooks for the subjects of Arabic, French and mathematics in these schools were paid for by the regional academies from their own budgets.”
Akouri stated that students are expected to join public schools on September 9, and said: “It is usual that immediately after entry, previous achievements for all levels are supported during the month of September,” expecting that the absence of some teachers to participate in the census will not affect this stage.
He explained: “We conducted a survey and it turned out that there would not be a significant impact, especially since in one school no more than one or two teachers would be absent, and other teachers would replace them.”
Akouri pointed out that the current income is also characterized by high prices and weak purchasing power of families, saying: “This year, prices have risen a lot and purchasing power has decreased, especially in private education where the cost is higher, whether in registration fees or additional books, and it is known that those who continue their studies in these schools are often middle-class children, which negatively affects this class.”
