In Egypt, Public Classrooms Are Empty as Private Tutors Get Rich In a country hobbled by economic crisis, families often turn to private education centers instead of schools to seek better futures for their children, sometimes even sacrificing food to pay for lessons. http://web.archive.org/web/20230808025833/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/world/middleeast/egypt-public-schools-tutoring.html