There are thousands of Syrian refugee students who have enrolled in Lebanese schools. An increasing number of refugee students have been searching for schools or programs that provide classes teaching the Syrian curriculum instead. In Lebanon, the subjects are taught in English and French, whereas in Syria, all subjects are taught in Arabic. If they are unable to find programs that teach the Syrian curriculum, many refugee students are dropping out altogether because they are unable to understand the lessons.According to the Lebanese Ministry of Education, schools barely have the resources to accommodate these students and are unable to provide additional classes that teach Syrian curriculum. Also, to prevent refugee students from demanding classes teaching Syrian curriculum, the Lebanese Education Ministry announced that it will not recognize certificates issued by Syrian programs.Although education services are available to refugee students, clearly students cannot benefit from lessons if they don’t understand the language in which they are taught. For this reason, the issue of providing programs that are practical for Syrian refugees must be addressed.
Syrian refugees should have schools that provide Syrian programs and curriculum. Since these students are not able to understand the Lebanese curriculum and that's not their fault because in their country they were not taught in these programs and languages so they will not understand either English or French and in our schools we teach these languages. Thus, Syrian students are facing a lot of problems in Lebanon especially in the learning domain.
ReplyDeleteMany of the Syrian refugees are being oppressed by being taught the Lebanese curriculum. I had taught for a period of time the Syrian refugees and it was really hard for both the teachers and the students to accommodate each other.
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