How many of them have to get up before dawn to prepare themselves for work and then wait for the driver to come before sunrise and to return just before sunset?
How many of them have been subjected to inflexible drivers and their machinations if not to say their sexual harassment?
These teachers may often be forced to neglect their duties toward their husbands and homes. They might, on many occasions, leave their sons, daughters and babies with their own mothers or mothers-in-law.
Many of these women have been victims of unsafe roads and reckless drivers. Some of them leave for school in the morning but never return because they have become yet another road fatality.
Who is responsible for this issue that requires women to travel so far to teach. The daily commuting is threatening to break up many families?
No doubt many families are suffering from social problems, including sons and daughters deviating from the straight path simply because both parents are often away from home for long periods of time.
Who is responsible for this problem? Is it the Education Ministry alone? Is it the Ministry of Civil Service or the Ministry of Transport? Or is it some other party we do not know?
Who is responsible for the loss of life of a woman who must travel such long distance on bad roads with careless drivers simply to teach our children?
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