🇲🇦Morocco's teachers debate: Classical Arabic or local dialect l Al Jazeera English

Educators in Morocco are asking what language is more important to be taught in schools.
Some say its classical Arabic, while others prefer the more local version.
The mix of languages is also being blamed in part for high drop-out rates, and now teachers want the government to make an official decision.
Al Jazeera's Hiba Morgan has more.

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[HammerheadGuitar]

They should teach both and use classical Arabic as international language and the local dialect as national language.

[thevoice]

Arabic (fusha) should be the main language, and English as a secondary language introduced after elementary.

[jinu]

I really appreciate the secular environment & tolerance towards religious minority of Qatar, except they hav no minority alive

[ladyessi]

They should try to teach both, i feel like the education in standard arabic and french is not enough for them to be able to speak it fluently. They should get more lessons. That is the real problem.

[fisebilillah]

Logicaly, school is there to teach literacy in the literary form of language, dialects are for colloquial communication.
What kind of a question is that even?

[gg]

Darija is an amazing language both written & spoken.

[Xaouen]

They can teach Arabic fusha no problem at all, but teach it as an foreign language, cause it is. It doesnt have native speakers in Morocco. Our native language is Darizja or Tamazight or both. it depends on the region you live. People need to stop with the arabization of Morocco and put down our own culture and language.

[RCSVirginia]

Let's see: Classical Arabic, a language that no-one speaks on an everyday basis and in which nothing is written of any modern importance. How about teaching in the Moroccan Arabic and in Berber, depending on the ethnic group, that children and young people really use, and teaching French, as well, a language in which a great deal that is modern and worthwhile is composed?

[ayoubkhalil]

If they stop teaching the classical Arabic it would be such an embarrassment. What a shame, the division among our people caused by the west is only being furthered. What foolish rulers we have, and foolish people doing nothing but wait wasting away their youth. If they do this i'll genuinely be embarrassed to be Moroccan. The problem with the schools isn't the languages its that the Moroccan people don't value knowledge. None of them go to school to learn, compared to the western nations our people are lazy and want things handed to them (youth that are in school). 60% of college students don't even graduate while school is free, an embarrassment. Clearly the people in control have no clue what they are doing, and the people being ruled over couldn't care less if their lives or their children's go to waste. Doing this will only strength our enemies and dim our connections with the rest of our people, simply creating a greater divide. Wow I can't believe they are blaming the language for their dumb kids not attending school, language has nothing to do with it, it can be learned easily if one chose to learn it, our youth are just a product of their parents, pathetic and lazy, hence why our civilization is so far behind the rest of the world. Keep being pathetic and lazy until you realize what you've wasted when the time is up. I find it funny how we are so prideful of our heritage yet the majority, with rare exceptions, live their lives without a goal to further themselves as humans, living a pathetic life centered around lesser pleasures and leading mundane lives, with no end in mind. These youths are just a product of their parents, whom they've observed and have replicated their way of life, for who else can a child learn from if not from his parents. This is the result of the idea that our people are plagued with, just have children and lots of them. For what? Are they going to be great citizens? If not then don't have children, we already got enough bad ones. Having a child isn't about just fornicating and conception, but the main part of it is teaching the child, and clearly the children have nothing to learn from parents that have nothing to teach, aside from their laziness and pathetic way of being. Now laziness doesn't mean not a hard worker, I don't care if you work 12 hrs a day, if you could use your brain and make it more efficient and make it 8 hrs and have the same outcome. That's what I refer to laziness, people don't want to be efficient and just waste their time instead of perfecting and improving. Compared to the rest of the world were in the stone age, wait until AI comes, there will be no such thing as Morocco, for it will be taken by whom ever pleases, since we will not be able to hold our own against such forces considering how behind we are. Changing the language will remove the only sense of unity we have with other Arab nations, our true allies, without it, us joining forces in the future, and establishing greatness as our ancestors once did will be near impossible (through means of unification), exactly what our opponents have in mind as well. If you advocate for this you're a fool, for there is no correlation between language and percent graduation/attended, a fool that is eager to bring an end to his people.

[ruwhan]

Man, don’t leave arabic language education even though no one speak it daily, you will regret later when almost no one understand Quran like some countries in Central Asia or South East Asia.

[jagatheesanchandrasekharan]

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[saidelboukka]

They must learn them darjia because its not a middel eastrn country. Second laguage must be english like 80 procent of the rest of the word. Get any thing french out of Marokko.

[jumarkpelismino]

Why does Arab world still teach Modern Standard Arabic (MSA/Fusha) even it has no native speakers?

I think MSA should be revised so that it will be more useful to Arabic native speakers of different speakers and also to foreigners who want to learn Arabic so that they can easily communicate with the locals...