NewsWhore
07-30-2007, 04:30 PM
No longer will exceptions to the rules in the books be needed for children of undocumented Haitians to be able to register at public and private schools in the north of the Dominican Republic, according to Pedro Diep, the regional director for the Ministry of Education. Education officials told reporters from the Spanish news agency "EFE" that it was a mistake to deny these children the right to an education, since that would affect the Dominican Republic in the long run. Diep said that "if we deny these children an education we will be training dangerous criminals for the future, and this is not what we want. Because they lack birth certificates, thousands of children of Haitian parentage have been denied access to school each year. Back during the Mejia administration, the President ordered these children to be accepted into schools, but a flood of dire warnings about the "loss of Dominican identity" held up the process. It is estimated that close to a million Haitians, many of them illegal immigrants, live and work in the Dominican Republic.
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