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'Dust and scorpions': Inside Iraq's crumbling school system / 34MN26R
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In a small village in central Iraq, children cram into dilapidated classrooms in a converted farmhouse with open-air toilets, a symptom of how education has been neglected in the oil-rich but war-weary country. "Dust, mud, snakes and scorpions -- classrooms are about to fall. It is a school on farmland that is unfit for anyone, even chickens," says one teacher. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES