Because of the financial crisis, her husband had to lay off his staff and scale back his business dramatically. Nassar was laid off last year because of the reduction in face-to-face classes during the pandemic. We can’t continue like that,” Nassar said. She knows that in two years, I will have to move her to a public school. It was a tough decision, but she wanted to ensure she could afford to keep her youngest, now in 5th grade, in private school until the end of her primary education. But the past three years, to cut costs, she was forced to move her two boys, now 18 and 15, out of a top-end private school, first to a cheaper school, then to a public school. She was once an Arabic kindergarten teacher, her husband ran a thriving food business, and their three children went to private school. Lara Nassar, 38, has been managing her family’s slow descent into poverty. No fewer than 15% of Lebanon’s 53,000 private school teachers have left the country, creating a large shortage, said Rodolph Abboud, the head of the Teachers Union.Īdding to the woes, last year’s Beirut port explosion, which devastated the capital, damaged more than 180 educational facilities.Īmid the hardships, parents are resolutely searching for ways to keep their children in schools. Salaries plummeted as the currency lost 90% of its value against the dollar. figures, 55% of Lebanon's population now lives in poverty, compared to 28% in 2018, effectively wiping out the once large middle class.
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“We don’t want to create a potential gap in the future where a full generation would be without education,” Hmaid said, calling for more resources for education.Īccording to U.N.
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