Unemployment

Unemployment has become a rampant phenomenon in Morocco. I strongly condemn it, and I strongly demand that all unemployed people, especially diploma holders, should be hired in different sectors. When it comes to the sector of education, I have got some second thoughts to mention. All unemployed B.A., M.A. and PhD holders are calling for joining the teaching profession. But, the question we have to pose here is whether they are competent enough to land this job or not. I strongly believe that we must not sacrifice competence for the sake of recruiting the unemployed. If we do so, expect that a large number of students will fall prey to the teaching of incompetent teachers. In this way, these students will in turn be negatively affected in that they will not receive good education as they should. Many of us are victims of this calamity. Enough is enough to badly-educated graduates if we really care about the education of our students! Personally, I would rather stay unemployed, trying to find another job than teach improperly. Many unemployed graduates have been recruited to teach, not because they passed the necessary written and oral exam, but because they took to the street calling for employment. I stand by them just the same way as I stand by the students whom they are going to teach. The fact that many ex-university students in Islamic studies have been recruited to teach Mathematics and French in primary schools breaks my heart, particularly that we are worsening the quality of our education by providing a bread-and-butter job to the unemployed calling for the teaching profession.