After spreading a video of school students in Damascus chanting a derogatory song that promotes hashish (a type of drug), the Minister of Education in the Syrian regime’s government, Darem Tabaa, visited the school, and the ministry issued a clarification on the incident.

The ministry indicated that what was circulated on social networking sites about the students of a school chanting a derogatory song containing immoral words that contradict social, national and educational values during school hours.

According to the circulating video, the students were chanting the song "Give me Hashish" by a Lebanese singer called Rabie Al-Omari.

The ministry said that Tabbaa visited Saad bin Ubadah school in Damascus, "given the seriousness of this matter, as this type of songs is among what is known educationally as the hidden curriculum that the student learns outside the school boundaries and in the media and negatively affects the formation of the system of national and social values."

The ministry claimed that "the students, during resting time, chanted a song they heard while riding the bus that took them to school, and immediately the school administration addressed the issue and alerted them not to listen or chant such songs."

While local sources confirmed that the song was broadcast on school radio and not, as the Ministry of Education claims, that they heard it on the bus, pointing out that the students chanted the song with the singer who sings it.

It added that a warning was issued to the school principal and the teacher on duty, "due to negligence and lack of follow-up."

Source: Russia Today