Is there difference between Sunni and Shia and Kurdish schools?
Yes. I think the schools in Kurdistan are better than Baghdad schools, and also the teachers there in Kurdistan take high salaries than teachers in Baghdad and south Iraq. As to Sunni and Shia, they go to the same schools and so have the same conditions. My second interview was with Majeed Maad, 34 years old, a teacher in Salah Al-Deen secondary school in Shaab area, east Baghdad. Before I was in a school near by the main checkpoint in east Baghdad, he said, and we blocked all the windows with sandbags to protect the students from bullets because there were resistance operations against US troops there. I think, Majeed continued, if this situation continues other two years all the schools will stop working because the situation became impossible. Most teachers take bribes, which means the students dont respect them. We ask the Iraqi government to find way to stop that. We cant force the students to respect us. Do you let your children go to school? Im not married yet, but I think this
