205 students study their lessons in a café in Meskala

Scandalous, unbearable, and anti-pedagogical. That is the least that can be said about the situation in which 205 students from the rural commune of Meskala in Essaouira have continued to study for the third consecutive year. Indeed, the students of the Mahmoud Darwich middle school are studying in the premises of a dilapidated building that served as a café/inn for the patients of a famous healer in the region. Students, teachers, administrative staff, and parents are dismayed and frustrated by the blockage of the middle school construction project, which has not progressed for almost a year now. Admittedly, the work has already exceeded 50%, but the situation has been stagnant for several months due to the non-payment of the architect's fees by the services of the AREF Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz. According to confirmed sources, the departure of the former director of the AREF has some…