illustration of Suri'ah refugee children sitting on a mattress in an abandoned school where food and shelter is provided by local organizations for charity in the Wadi Khaled area, North of Lebanon. (INTERMEDIATE/REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir)United Nations, New York (AFP)-riots in Syria continue to rage without control, threatening hundreds of thousands of children's education, said the UNITED NATIONS children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday (5/3).
The world body add a recent assessment found that one-fifth of the school in the Middle East has suffered physical damage directly or used as a shelter for people left homeless.
UNICEF assessment shows very many schools have been destroyed, the teachers had found the presence of death, and the number has been freefall.
The political crisis erupted in March 2011 and later turned into riots and armed clashes, thus creating humanitarian crisis in parts of the Middle East.
"The educational system in Syria is the impact of the unrest," said Youssouf Abdel-Jelil, as quoted by Xinhua--which monitored Between Jakarta, Wednesday night. "Syria never proud with the quality of the school. Now the country is witnessing the achievements reached during the years of rapidly spinning 180 degrees. "
According to that assessment, one-fifth of the country's schools have suffered physical damage directly or used to accommodate persons who became refugees in their country (IDP).
In various cities of the most fierce conflict, such as in Idlib, Aleppo and Deraa, the children often can't attend school, sometimes just being present twice in a week. But in an area with a lot of IDP, crowded classes, sometimes up to 100 pupils.
The assessment, conducted in December, also found more than 110 teachers and many other teachers will no longer report to teach. In Idlib, teacher presence is nothing more than 55 percent.
Some schools have also been used by armed forces and armed groups involved in the conflict, so that parents are reluctant to send their children to school.
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