Whirlpool of Tansik

The whirlpool of Thanaweya Amma Tansik has started after the high school tsunami ended over the past days and months and amid the students’ exhaustion, and parents’ anxiety, we the Tansik stage started. This year, indicators confirm that the minimum grades for entering colleges have risen by about a grade or two.

The top students have traditional success stories. There is no story that can be said to be extraordinary or a story of struggle and heroism. This is normal amid the absence of standards and a unified system that has made cases of excellence as ordinary stories.

It seems that the reason is that there are new terms that have entered our lives: studying via video conferencing, online lessons, software success, and the hardware crisis. All year long we live without IT or a programmer.

Malak one of the top students says that she was keen on diligence and perseverance, she organized her time, and continued studying her lessons, another top student Nada , says “My father and mother were my biggest supporters... I am indebted to them for the rest of my life.” As for Samaa, said she used to “separate” and allocate a day for taking a break and going out with her friends, and did not set hours for studying.

As for the strangest story, it was of Suzy, a Jordanian national who is studying in Egypt, she danced for getting 30 percent with her efforts. “I am not sad because I am not tired and I told my mother to be happy. I only have failed in 3 subjects, no cheating or private lessons.”

I always wonder where the Thanaweya Amma school students go. Do they become distinguished scientists, doctors, and engineers? Do they achieve their dreams?

I still make the same wish for the Minister of Education that I made two weeks ago in my article about the Thanaweya Amma bogeyman, in which I said: We want the new Minister of Education to remove the Thanaweya Amma bogeyman from every Egyptian home.

I wish this bogeyman, even the Tansik bogeyman, would end and that every student could go to the type of study that he likes and understands.