CHAUTARA, Nepal — The concrete walls of the high school here shattered like a mirror, leaving a latticework of fissures that crisscross every wall and pillar.Engineers have condemned the school, Shree Gyan Mandir Mamuna Higher Secondary School, fearing that the continuing aftershocks from the devastating earthquake last month could cause at least one of the structure’s two floors to collapse. That is what happened to the house next door, where the second floor is now the first.While information is still sketchy about the extent of the damage across Nepal, officials say that thousands of schools have been destroyed and that tens of thousands of classrooms need replacing.“Almost one million children who were enrolled in school before the earthquake could now find they have no school building to return to,” said Tomoo Hozumi, Unicef’s representative in Nepal. “Prolonged interruption to education can be devastating for children’s development and future prospects.”
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