Minya school official warns parents about student misconduct in viral meeting

School official Hamdi Mahmoud warned parents of student misconduct at a Beni Haram, Minya, meeting whose footage spread widely online.

• Hamdi Mahmoud convened the awareness meeting with parents at the Beni Haram school in Minya, footage of which circulated widely on social media.
• Mahmoud warned that students bring mobile phones to class without their parents' knowledge, with girls filming and watching wedding clips during lessons.
• He said first-year preparatory students had been caught smoking cigarettes and that the school seized lighters, chains, bracelets and ripped trousers.
• Mahmoud said he expelled three students for cursing religion at teachers.
• Broadcaster Tamer Amin praised the social worker's candid remarks, saying the warnings apply to every Egyptian household, not only that school.