Poor kids and school

    Because of the economic problems in Romania, the number of poor kids has reached 350.000 ... That`s why around 40.000 kids, mostly from the country side, have left their schools, annually..

    In Romania in the year 2011, the access at education remains a major problem. This way, 25% of the kids from the country side are not attending primary school and only 45,2% are attending secondary school.  

Poor kids are discriminated in schools!!

   A quarter of children feel discriminated by colleagues and teachers, specially poor kids from country side or gypsy kids.

    Chronic and regrettable phenomenon, non-participation of gypsies kids or poor kids at formal education, is a neglected phenomenon.

    The causes of this phenomenon are many and very complex.

    Marginalisation, exclusion, severe poverty and discrimination - are the dominant attributes that characterize gypsies communities.  

    Here are some causes why the gypsy kids or poor kids are not attending schools: 

• physiological needs : lack of food and clothing, financial funds to support children in school, lack of appropriate environment in which the educational process takes place;
• physical and psychological security needs : lack of transportation to participate at school activities, physical insecurity in schools or elsewhere due to family violence or/and school violence, psychological insecurity created by the child inability to adapt in school, or assessment standards required by teachers.

 To be continued.................