Houthis privatizing Yemen's state-owned schools
The criminal Houthi militia keeps committing crimes with the aim of controlling everything in Yemen. It uses every method possible to make this control.
Privatizing schools
Having laid their hands
on mosques, houses and banks across Yemen since staging their coup in the
country in September 2014, the Houthis are now turning to Yemen's schools.
It now works to let the
public schools into private hands, especially in Yemeni capital Sana'a. By
doing this, the Houthis want to increase their financial resources.
Corruption
According to Yemeni
reports on November 6, the Iran-backed militia keeps spreading its corruption
in Yemen.
It had privatized some
of the schools to earn more money.
Houthi minister of
education Hussein al-Houthi issued a decision in October this year for letting
20 government-owned schools in Sana'a into private hands.
The new administrations
in the same schools have already started charging their pupils high amounts of
money in study fees.
Houthi claims
Houthi leaders claim
that the schools will offer distinguished educational services after their
privatization.
The schools will enlist
the services of qualified teachers, which requires an increase in the fees.
Pupils enrolled in
stages between the first primary stage and the sixth primary stage will be
required to pay around $260 in fees. Older pupils will have to pay more money.
Media campaigns
Activists affiliated to
the terrorist Houthi militia have launched media campaigns on social media
sites with the aim of giving the Yemeni public information about the privatized
schools and the services they will offer.
Yemen's other
government-owned schools continue to offer their services for reduced or no
fees. However, the privatized schools will open in the afternoons.
