Gambling Your Education
I’m sure you’ve all heard it before. Lebanon boosts the best universities in the Middle East … blah, blah, and so on. Well, I think our selection of higher education has just got better when I found this in my Inbox this morning:
In the event you need to sharpen your hands at cards, the “school” [...]
Bright Light in the Midst of Darkness
After over two decades of rolling blackouts, some schools have finally seen the light (thanks to donations, of course):
Lebanon’s remote northeastern district of Akkar, teachers and pupils at the Rajam Issa public school are hoping this winter will be the first when the lights stay on.
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It is hoped that by the end of November their [...]
An Education of Discrimination
Having attended Sagesse High School, I witnessed first-hand discrimination kids inflict on one another. Even in what was largely a (sort of) diversified group of students, mostly returning Lebanese expats, discrimination was ripe. Mockery and disassociation was the name of the game. I remember the Indian Ambassador’s children attended the school and their classmates made [...]
Class Trip Half-Way Across the Planet
Whatever happened to class trips to the museum?
A weeklong trip to Lebanon will not seem real to Wausau East High School students until they board an airplane Saturday.
Really to Lebanon? Apparently these are International Baccalaureate (IB) students who’ve been provided this opportunity by the US Embassy in Beirut.
The trip’s origin actually began in the Embassy [...]
