The “Ba’ath Party” forced school students in the areas controlled by the Syrian regime to stage demonstrations calling for an end to the sanctions imposed on the regime and an end to its political isolation.
The campaign included a number of schools in the province, and school principals, along with young students, staged a demonstration in the town of Qanawat to demand the lifting of sanctions.
This move aroused the resentment of the parents as it was a political act outside the tasks of schools and directorates of education, and they considered it a compulsory domestication of children and forcibly planting Baath ideas in their minds.
A family source says that the Directorate of Education in As-Suwayda has been unable, since the beginning of the school year, to secure school supplies, and relied on private donations to secure them, especially exam papers, which school principals are using today to write banners calling for normalization with those who brought the country to what it has reached.
In the northern countryside of Homs, similar protests took place in the schools of the Houla region, where Baath Party officials forced teachers and school principals to participate.
Likewise, in the capital, Damascus, activists circulated a picture of a book issued by the “Vanguards of the Baath Organization,” indicating that it instructed the organization of protest vigils in all schools located in regime-controlled areas, and demanded that the regime’s Ministry of Information include local and foreign media outlets to cover it.
