Parents who could afford it put their children in private schools, which were largely unregulated. In February 2012, one such school, Nour al-Houda, hired a bus company to take its kindergarten class to a play area in Kufr Aqab. The company sent an illegally registered twenty-seven-year-old bus to drive on neglected, congested roads, without proper lighting, a police presence, or a barrier between the lanes of oncoming traffic.
