Deputy’s move for electoral interests?

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Sometimes we disagree with a naïve one whose faults can be revealed effortlessly, so he often provides fertile material for criticizing him and all we have to do is to sit and wait for him to open his mouth with a statement, to find defects in front of us, and it is disastrous to assign education, economics and other matters to the unqualified.

Representative Hamad Al-Matar, head of the National Assembly’s educational committee proudly posed for the cameras or newspaper reporters and news agencies to announce that the committee met and agreed to 5 recommendations, the majority of which relate to students, including the recommendation to increase their remuneration from 200 to 300 dinars, and agreeing to grant a student married to a non-Kuwaiti the same amount which was not the case before.

It is clear that the recommendation is intended to win the votes of students in the future and some of the voices of parents, and if those who agreed to it know the extent of its social, moral and scientific harm, they would not have agreed to it in the first place, but what to do and these are the choices of the religious parties for those who represent them in Parliament, and well they did so that those who trust these people know how empty they are.

The idea of granting this money to students, who number approximately 100,000 at Kuwait University, the Applied Education and the specialized institutes has harmed them more than the few needy who benefited from it. The reward law was passed without consulting the parents of those students responsible for the upbringing and morals of their children.

If the goal was to help the student to buy books, for example, the government should provide it through the university libraries at a nominal price to the needy student, or disburse it through charities, or by any other means instead of spending 20 million dinars annually as rewards to be lost in restaurants and makeup kits (for women). Then comes a hasty inconsiderate party that demands an increase by 50% in one go.

If the members of the educational committee, headed by its leader think about the interest of Kuwait and its youth, and not their electoral interests, they would recommend canceling these allocations, or at least rationalize them, so that they will contribute to raising the level of education by giving them to students especially those who study medicine, engineering and various sciences especially bio-chemistry and epidemiological sciences whose role has become crucial in securing the lives of peoples as the Corona pandemic has revealed, and withholding it from literary disciplines. How can a country with this backwardness equate a medical student with a Sharia student when the majority of the latter cannot find jobs in the labor market?

How did the committee of “geniuses of education” in the National Assembly not discover that books of scientific materials are rare and expensive and that many theoretical materials are written and distributed for free and without charge?

Consequently, the decision to increase the grant by 50% is a dull populist decision to gain political advantage and harm an economy that is faltering, so that Mr Al-Matar and his committee members can continue holding on to their chairs and let rationalization and the interest of the homeland go to hell.

The government does not need to be urged to throw the education committee’s proposal in the trash which is the proper place because the recommendations are pointless.

We repeat it, “Sometimes we disagree with the naïve one whose does not need to make any effort to reveal his faults, so he often does this himself and provides fertile material for criticizing him.

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By Ahmad alsarraf

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