Faced with the Alarming Spread of Drugs in Schools, President Kaïs Saïed Calls for a General Mobilization
Enhanced Security, Daily Awareness, and In-Depth Reform of the Educational System are at the Heart of his Guidelines
The President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, received yesterday, at the Carthage Palace, Messrs. Khaled Nouri, Minister of the Interior, Noureddine Nouri, Minister of Education, and Sofiene Bessadek, Secretary of State in charge of National Security.
At the beginning of this meeting, the Head of State emphasized the need to protect students from the scourge of drugs that has spread inside and around schools and high schools. He stressed the importance of ensuring permanent security patrols, specifying that this phenomenon, which worsens day by day, aims to undermine society. He added that action should not be limited to a strictly security-oriented approach or solely to the fight against trafficking networks, but should mobilize all efforts, particularly by devoting part of each day's classes to raising awareness about the dangers of these poisons, whose only antidote lies in the education of minds and civic instruction that preserves the State, its unity, and social cohesion, within families, educational institutions, and beyond.
The President of the Republic recalled the crucial importance of the education and teaching sector, which he considers a sovereignty sector. It is not coincidental, he emphasized, that the Constitution provides for the creation of a Higher Council for Education and Teaching, which will soon be established to begin its work and correct the erroneous choices made in this field. He specified that no error in this sector can be rectified in less than two decades. He also regretted that Tunisia, which should have been exempt from illiteracy, is experiencing a rise in school dropout rates, adding that the damage to the faculty of free thought has generated a "masked illiteracy," even more dangerous than the inability to read and write.
