Exceptional School Year: South Lebanon Families Weigh Options Amid War Fears

For many families in southern Lebanon, choosing a school is no longer a decision made months in advance. With September approaching, parents are still weighing where to enroll their children, watching the security situation and recalling the upheaval of the past two years, when thousands of students were kept out of classrooms, families were displaced and schools shifted from in-person to remote learning. The uncertainty has produced starkly different choices. Some families are enrolling children in schools in the areas where they were displaced.