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04-23-2007, 04:50 PM
Archbishop Ramon de la Rosa y Carpio, the head of the Santiago archdiocese and president of the Dominican Council of Bishops, has urged the nation to adopt compulsory education through high school as a way of getting school age children off the streets. Speaking at the National Day of Catholic Education, the Archbishop said that one of the greatest challenges is to move from good intentions to "major disbursements in the educational sector." According to the prelate, it is sad to have to remember that there were no children on the streets during the Trujillo dictatorship because the dictator obliged them to be in school. While the nation does not need a Trujillo to oblige people to study since that would be a retrograde step, he said, "what we want is a democracy but without the children in the streets."
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