Since the start of the school year, the pupils of the Iguerar primary school, falling under the Zerktouni school group, in the Tiznit region, have still been on holiday. Each morning, about twenty children from the 1st to the 3rd year of this establishment huddle, in freezing cold, in front of the small door of this building, watching for the teacher who does not arrive, before turning back.

Indeed, since her assignment to this school, located in the territory of the Tioughza commune, the teacher has been noticed for frequent absences, punctuated by sporadic presences before disappearing again. As confirmed to us by an official of the Iguerar Association for Development, which closely follows the schooling of the village children. This abnormal situation is explained by the fact that the teacher abuses medical certificates attesting to her sickly state, to justify her almost permanent absence from the class. For an official contacted by Libe, within the delegation in Tiznit, his administration is well aware of this "absurd situation".

On the other hand, he confirms to us the regularity of the steps taken by the teacher, so that "most of the counter-visits carried out attest to the veracity of the advanced illness". On the other hand, he adds, the competent services will at the appropriate time submit this case to the administration's disciplinary council for examination and taking justified measures. However, for the parents of pupils, this "thicket of explanations" does not in any way justify the fate inflicted on their offspring who no longer doubt the spectre of a blank year. They point the finger at the provincial delegation and hold it responsible for not having ensured the assignment of a teacher, to make a replacement. A "negligence" from which the schooling of the pupils suffers by ricochet. Especially since our children, they complain, do not even know how to write their names in Arabic, let alone in French, do calculations, handle a computer..., like their comrades in other classes who, for their part, continue their schooling normally. To assert their right to the schooling of their children, the parents supported by the office of their douar association, sent correspondence to the governor and delegate of education of the province as well as to the director of the Academy of Education in Agadir, begging them to assign a teacher to their school. But the grievance remained without echo! As a result, the pupils and their parents organised a sit-in in front of the establishment, during the presence of the school director and the teacher, to protest against this disconcerting situation.

The officials questioned did not deign to lift a finger!. On the side of the incriminated administration, contacted by us, the reply is peremptory. We are told that it does not have sufficient human resources to fill this vacant position!. The delegation nevertheless suggests a solution: transfer these pupils to another school, a few kilometres from the village. To which the parents, who fear for their children, respond in the negative. "The road between the village and the proposed school has just been asphalted; it currently experiences heavy traffic, which constitutes a danger for our little ones whom we could not send all alone," explains an inhabitant. Nevertheless, a few months from the end of the school year, the pupils still cling to their right to go to class in their douar as long as a school is there. Although they no longer believe in a possible catch-up of lessons: "It's now missed!".

Meanwhile, faced with this situation, their parents say they are losing their Latin. They do not understand this paradox which makes the policy displayed in terms of education make "the right of all to schooling shimmer" and the limits of manoeuvre of its relay administration on the spot, make two! Indeed, it must be known that the poor management of human resources in these remote regions is also for something. According to a union official who prefers to remain anonymous, the pretext of the non-availability of sufficient staff is only a subterfuge. Many teachers who were to be assigned to different rural regions were "curiously" called to join comfortable positions in administrations in the cities, and this, with the complicit blessing of the other "partners", supposed to ensure the application of the regulations in force!. Let us return to the "particular case" of the teacher in question to say that it is well known to the officials during her assignment to the district of the Tiznit delegation in 99, since, since then, she provides medical certificates so as not to return to class.

Why then must we wait five months, with all that this can induce as a delay compromising the schooling of the Iguerar pupils to finally foresee (for when?) her passage to the disciplinary council? We then wonder what the school map drawn up each year is for, if not to take advantage of its predictive value by taking the necessary measures in order to ensure normal schooling for the pupils in question and for all those who should suffer from similar cases?