Educational concerns

[NewsWhore]

Educational standards among students entering high school and university in the DR has been a topic of concern of late, with new statistics from the Education Ministry adding a new dimension to those concerns. According to the Ministry last year a total of 178,814 students quit school. There was a 7% desertion rate for primary school and an 11% desertion rate for middle school. Francisco Yuli, director of Academic Programs for the Junior Achievement Program, says that while many children leave school to fill economic needs at home those who do stay are "mentally distracted." He added that students often don't study because they don't appreciate the need for an education. Yuli added that schools have now become factories and that teachers no longer teach.

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