Students in the ISIS-held neighborhoods of besieged Yarmouk camp south of Damascus can not escape the radical curriculum of the Islamic State that just incite fro bloodshed and brutality.
ISIS has forced the teaching its curriculum in 2 schools, one on al-Oroba neighbourhood for males and another for females in ISIS’s headquarter in al-Hajar al-Aswad. The curriculum is for two stages, primary and preparatory, includes 6 subjects, Islamic Education, Shreea, Hadith, math, Physics and Arabic Language. Most teachers are members of ISIS, however, sometimes the state hire salaried-teachers to teach its curriculum only.
The level of teaching is not acceptable, as most teachers do not have academic training in teaching, and hardly have the secondary certificate.
Schools in ISIS-control areas are coloured with black an white, with images of arms and fighters carrying guns and swords, even maths books use images of weapon like bombs, guns and tanks for calculation teaching.
Asaad, a former teacher explained to Zaman al-Wasl that what is happening in the four neighbourhoods in southern Damascus: Yarmouk camps, Hajar al-Aswad , Tadamon and Esali, is very threatening and dangerrous, because it targets the children and practices systematic brain-wash to make them adopt ISIS’s violent principles, ideas and practices, as may beheading punishments took place in schools in front of children, who must shout in the name of ISIS.
There is a training school called “Ashbal Khilafa Islamiya”, for summer season to traing children age 7-12years on fighting, physical training and practice on arms, moreover, children watch ISIS’s special videos and other media materials in manner similar to that used for who newly joined.
Although ISIS tries to force its own curriculum in southern Damascus, attendees of school are almost restricted to families of fighters, while other residents try to teach their chidren in schools in Yalda and Babila which are under the Syrian opposition's control
