Slow start at public schools

[NewsWhore]

Yesterday was the first day of the 2009-2010 school year, but as has been the case for decades in the DR, few students showed up at public schools for the first day of class. This cultural phenomenon flies in the face of a new Education initiative that looks to guarantee 1,000 hours of classroom work for each student. This cultural phenomenon is so widespread that in January, at the start of the second half of the 2008-2009 school year, Education Minister Melanio Paredes said on average Dominican public school students only attended school for five days during January.

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