Violence in Moroccan educational establishments … isolated or structural phenomenon?
During the Past Few Days, the Category of Two Professors Raised the City of Erfoud and the City of Al -faqih in Saleh, Active Reservations in the Educational Field, Starting from “Condemning the problem in all its forms and branches”, with the contrast in “monitoring its repercussions, Actually promoted to the degree of the Deep Structural Phenomenon Within The Educational Process or is limited to Being Just Isolated Cases that are circulated in the media and find a large resonance within national public opinion.
Isolated cases
Mohamed Al -Darwish, head of the National Observatory of the Education and Training System, said that “violence in Morocco and in the school community is not a phenomenon; isolated cases that occur from time to time”.
Al -Darwish explained that “what happened to my teacher Erfoud and the lawyer Benhaaleh is mainly linked to a complex reality, in which the psychological, social, educational and framework factors overlap.”
The head of the National Observatory for the Education and Training System has added: “The resolution of the question is a shared responsibility, which includes school, family, media, constitutional institutions, civil society organizations and government sectors.”
The educational actor stressed that “the problem is taken into account with great interest in the observatory, which maintains the pace of the discussion and is preparing to condemn it in clear communication,” calling “all the parties responsible for the supervision of the citizen to the effective commitment to the organization of the reality of the school”.
The spokesman continued: “The joint framing makes the citizen more peaceful and less capable of resorting to violence, but today we are recorded, unfortunately, that the question has reached a disturbing and unprecedented level, in particular towards the family, women and educational men, as well as among the students themselves.”
The head of the educational observatory stressed that “in the past, we have not seen such facts in the education system, and respect has prevailed between the various actors in the educational process”, expressing his “explicit rejection of violence”, calling for “all parties to responsibility, because this problematic problem for the eventualities which require challenges of Morocco.
A clear phenomenon
Jamal Shafiq, the educational expert and the former central educational inspector, has recorded that “violence in the school environment has become a real phenomenon”, noting that “he is always assisted in the school context, according to the climate of the institution and the conditions of dominant social relations.
Shafiq, in his statement to Hespress, stressed that “this affair differs from one school to another. The motivations for attacks, in turn, vary, because psychological and social pressure plays a central role.”
The educational expert and the former central educational inspector explained that “the dissemination of violence in schools is similar to that we are witnessing in the streets, although the educational space has a privacy that requires the lack of violence, the spread of tranquility and calm, to stimulate the educational process.”
The spokesman added that “the dominant cramps in this medium include all the actors, whether among the students themselves, or between teachers, or between students and teachers. This dilemma cannot be reduced by its gravity. Consequently, the Supreme Council for Education and Training is interested.”
He called for “the elimination of verbal and physical violence”, stressing that “resistance to this phenomenon is possible by changing mentalities and behaviors, and improving the awareness of its seriousness in the educational process, in particular in the light of the unprecedented decline of values at school.”
The expert in education and the former central educational inspector also called for “tightening penalties and dissuading the attackers, to maintain discipline in educational establishments”.
