Maintenance and excavations at Al Zubaydiah school at the height of students receiving their education
AlAnbat- Shatha Hatamleh
Translated by Adel Fareed
It is customary in societies and developed countries that
infrastructure maintenance for government facilities and institutions is
carried out at times after the end of work, but what happens to us is the exact
opposite, as we see maintenance teams conducting their operations during
official working hours without paying attention to the extent of the impact of
maintenance operations on workers and students in these institutions.
"AlAnbat"
mail received complaints from the families of many students of Al Zubaydiah
School for Girls located in Al Hashmi Al Shamali, which included that one of
the maintenance teams of the Ministry of Education carried out maintenance
work, excavations, and deep expansion inside the school campus and during the
students' official working hours. Which stood as an obstacle to the benefit of
these students from their school lessons.
The citizens continued their complaints, explaining that
these reforms and excavations pose a kind of danger to the lives of students in
the school, especially that the school building is old and dilapidated and
liable to collapse at any moment and is nearly fifty years old, as they said.
The administration of Al Zubaydiah School has put the
Directorate of Education in the picture of the scene, especially after the
students’ families refused maintenance work at a time when their children have
the right to receive their education, and in turn, the Directorate of Education
sent representatives to see the progress of maintenance and excavation
operations, but their response "that the building It is safe and has no
defects, and they suggested that the principal disable secondary school
students from school hours, and their argument was that most of the students
are registered in centers and have electronic teaching cards, and they put
warning tapes around the area of maintenance and excavation work, according to
the students and their families.
The Director of the International Buildings and Projects
Department at the Ministry of Education, Dr. Eng. Ibrahim Samama, said that
maintenance work is being carried out gradually, building and then another
building, indicating that the building in which maintenance work is carried out
does not contain students.
He added that the
maintenance work that is carried out in this school is based on a study carried
out by the Royal Society, pointing out that the maintenance work is carried out
in coordination with the Director of Education and the school director so that
coordination is carried out provided that maintenance work is carried out
without violating the educational process, carefully and according to the
rules, knowing that there is supervision by Engineers in the Directorate of Engineering Affairs of the Department of
Buildings.