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to enter the campus (parents accompanying children) till classes which is not permissible in
other qualified schools because no parents are allowed to go beyond the entrance they should
leave their children on the gate and there is a security person who will take this matter in
charge, but because people consider that they are from the neighborhood they are allowed to
act as they want.
The majority of the parents’ answers varied, especially the reason to choose the “R” School,
some prioritized the religious management, and others preferred the discipline and a good few
tended to the financial reasons; all these factors combined are available in the school but not
well organized because the management doesn’t focus on any of them, they give parents the
chance to try and to decide.
Parents committee is active in terms of school financial support however they are sedentary in
other issues related to their duties, but the question is how far the management allows to these
stakeholders to work on this issue?
Staff background is good, all teachers are skilled and experienced but there is a problem in the
training issue because not everybody attends to the needed training, because some of the
teaching staff considers that they have enough experience to attend any extra training. The
majority of the teachers and coordinators’ answers showed that there is not enough
involvement culture or policy of the teaching staff in the school education program or in the
school interior decision making.
Training sessions are done whenever is necessary knowing that training is very costly because
actually concerning NPO’S and specially schools there is only one training agency in
Lebanon. School asks their staff to attend training on their private budget or free training.
Number of students through the school history has decreased and this is somehow critical
because the strategy provided by the management concerning this issue is not clear.
Based on the above, the table in chapter four describes the comparison between the concept
and the actual situation of the “R” school according to the answers collected.
3.2.3 Parents choice for “R” School
The school shows a high demand of admission, and most of its students are in the
region but we can’t ignore that there is a high competitive challenge from other 3 private