100.000 expelled pupils beg for reintegration in schools

More than 100.000 students who are expelled from schools are still waiting impatiently in the street for reintegration, given the refusal of the heads of educational institutions to reintegrate them on the grounds that they did not receive any written instructions, although the Minister of National Education Baba Ahmed Abdelatif, had ordered for the meeting of educational councils to re-integration at all levels, without exception.

Head of the Federation of Parents’ Associations, Ahmad Khaled, told Echorouk that he received numerous complaints from various wilayas of the country such as, Oran, Tizi Ouzou, Bejaia, Constantine, Annaba and Msila, made by the parents who said they suffer from some directorates of education and heads of educational institutions,who refuse to reintegrate their children who were expelled from schools, despite the passage of a month since the school year ‘s start, under the pretext that they did not receive any official written instruction, though the Minister of National Education Baba Ahmed Abdelatif, had ordered at the beginning of the school year – in an oral instructions – for the need to hold councils of sections at the level of educational institutions to study the cases of students who were expelled, case by case across the country, with a view to their reintegration and give them another chance for success.

The first responsible of the Union called for the issuance of a ministerial regulation that should be published in national newspapers, in order to give the right for the expelled pupils who meet three necessary conditions regarding the general average, which must be at least 9 out of 20, behavior within the classes and the institutions and the number of absences, to return to their departments and schools as normal just like the rest of the pupils, adding that parents of pupils have made ​​an urgent appeal to the Minister for the consideration in their childrens’ files.

“13 wilayas across Algeria which are Bejaia, Tizi Ouzou, Boumerdes, Annaba, Msila, Khenchela, Ain Defla, Djelfa, Tissemsilt, and Tiaret, suffer from the problem of lack of the book of mathematics for the first primary year, and the book of reading for third-year primary schools. The problem is not in the Ministry of Education and not in the National Office for exams and competitions, on the grounds that the the office has printed this year 60 million text books, but the heads of educational institutions who provide wrong figures, are responsible of the crisis”, he added.