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Well-paid jobs lure Lebanon's demoralised teachers to the Gulf 

Forced to teach the wrong subjects, scrape by on decimated wages and even buy their own chalk, demoralised Lebanese teachers are heading abroad – many lured by well-paid jobs in the United Arab Emirates. 

Lebanon's three-year-old economic crisis has caused havoc in the country's schools, with teachers' strikes closing many for months on end, and dropout rates have surged as families send children out to work, instead.