Highlighting the quandary most expat, if not all expat, parents go through here in Qatar: educating our kids. Considering the high price one has to pay here for schools and tuitions, the quality somehow doesn't always match up. And the schools can be so insecure and unsure in every sense.
My daughter was studying in a private school for two years when all of a sudden, on the last day of the second term, we were greeted with a slip of paper conveying to us, in an oh so casual manner, that the school was to be closed down as of that day! God have mercy! Mind you they said not a word before, we had no inkling at all. The struggle we had to find her a new school was tough to say the least, since most schools had closed or were closing for summer vacation, and/or were already full. Thank God she was in grade 3 and not in the senior grades, and my heart went out to those kids who were. I can't even imagine the plight of their parents.
And during our quest we found plenty of flaws in the whole education system itself here that I will not go into now.
Perhaps we might see an improvement soon in the essential aspect of education and the system surrounding it here in Qatar..but as of now it sure has a long way to go before it can be deemed even remotely acceptable and easily achievable for everyone.
Highlighting the quandary most expat, if not all expat, parents go through here in Qatar: educating our kids. Considering the high price one has to pay here for schools and tuitions, the quality somehow doesn't always match up. And the schools can be so insecure and unsure in every sense.
My daughter was studying in a private school for two years when all of a sudden, on the last day of the second term, we were greeted with a slip of paper conveying to us, in an oh so casual manner, that the school was to be closed down as of that day! God have mercy! Mind you they said not a word before, we had no inkling at all. The struggle we had to find her a new school was tough to say the least, since most schools had closed or were closing for summer vacation, and/or were already full. Thank God she was in grade 3 and not in the senior grades, and my heart went out to those kids who were. I can't even imagine the plight of their parents.
And during our quest we found plenty of flaws in the whole education system itself here that I will not go into now.
Perhaps we might see an improvement soon in the essential aspect of education and the system surrounding it here in Qatar..but as of now it sure has a long way to go before it can be deemed even remotely acceptable and easily achievable for everyone.