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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 09:11 AM
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Braving death, Baghdad's children start school
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=inDepthNews&storyID=2006-09-20T132119Z_01_GRA034034_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-IRAQ-SCHOOL.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage3

The start of Iraq's school year was greeted with trepidation on Wednesday, but also joy, as parents accepted that their children might be in danger but hoped they would find relief from the boredom and fear of a city consumed by violence.

"We feel sorry for the students. How will they manage to study with all these bombings, killings and kidnappings?" said Suaad, an Arabic language teacher at nearby Zanabuq Primary School, asking that her surname not be used. "But the students want to come to school, it is the only outlet left for them."

Most schools have fewer pupils this year, and many of the pupils are new, a result of families moving neighborhoods or fleeing the capital altogether. Teachers, too, have fled, which means classes are larger, with pupils from more than one year packed into a single room, often in shifts.
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25-year-old biology teacher who asked not to be named said she no longer knew why she came to work. Salaries, generous in the initial days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, have been eroded by inflation. Hers is now worth about $110 a month. "Nothing encourages us to come to work, neither the salaries nor the security situation," she said. "Maybe I'd be better off staying at home."



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