Will Moroccan families face school fees due to high prices?
Heba Press / Rabat
Many Moroccan families are awaiting the next school year with great apprehension, especially given the high prices on the “Moroccan market” and the absence of any sign that what is to come is better.
Khaled Al-Samadi, Moroccan academic and educator. The former Secretary of State to the Minister of National Education addresses the issue in a long article in which he states:
“If this entry coincides with the celebration by Moroccans of the 25th anniversary of the accession to the throne of His Majesty the King, they will mention that His Majesty the King opened the 2000-2001 school season in an unprecedented manner in royal speeches and messages by addressing a special message to his faithful people and through them to the family of education and training. “This reflects the special importance that His Majesty has given to this great national workshop since the beginning of his accession to the throne of his blessed ancestors until today.”
Al-Samadi added: “This message has been and continues to be a source of pride and pride for the education and training family. It was also considered a roadmap for launching workshops aimed at implementing the National Charter of Education and Training.
Al-Samadi believes that “25 years have passed since this directed message, during which the education system has undergone profound transformations, the most important of which is the promulgation of the first framework law aimed at reforming the education, training and scientific system since independence, and its entry into force in 2019. This process now needs evaluation and foresight, it also needs a new spirit and mobilization of all stakeholders and a roadmap to complete the reform workshops by 2030 by accelerating the implementation of the requirements of the framework law, which His Majesty the King considered binding on all governments and came to break with the logic of reform and reform, and half of its implementation period, 2019-2024, has passed.”
It is worth noting – said Al-Samadi – with regret that this law, despite its importance, has been exposed, at the level of its implementation, to the disruption of a number of its requirements after the freezing of the legislative project, and to the hesitation to activate others. despite the publication of its implementing texts, for reasons that are neither known nor understood, which threaten not to achieve the objectives it has set for itself so far. Half of its download period has elapsed, as shown by the reports of the Higher Council for Education and Training. and Scientific Research and the Bank of Morocco have warned.
Al-Samadi recorded: “This is what has made entering school, training and university in recent years a routine without color, taste or smell, and which does not go beyond cold administrative notes and rigid entry signatures.”
In fact, some have even attempted to assassinate the One Million Wallets initiative, which marks the school admissions process, and Moroccans consider it as the symbolic meeting through which His Majesty announces the start of the new school season.
Al-Samadi concluded his article by saying: “All Moroccans still hope for a new initiative that will put the train back on its tracks, a quarter of a century after the first loading.”
