'Snakes and scorpions': Inside Iraq's crumbling school system
"We close the school when it rains because water leaks through the roof," said Oudai Abdallah, director of a public elementary school in the Bani Saad district, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Baghdad.
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Young learners attend class at the mixed-gender al-Tafawuq elementary school, which rents mud brick buildings with thatched roofs on a farm to be used as makeshift classrooms, in the Bani Saad district in Iraq's Diyala province on March 10, 2024. (AFP)
By NewVision Reporter
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In a small village in central Iraq, children cram into dilapidated classrooms in a converted farmhouse with open-air toilets, a symptom of how education has