A mayor from Iași announces that he cuts the money for toilet paper because the students of a school have small notes: “I am not with the remunerate to the stupidity” / the teachers' replica
Students during an exam. Photo: Dreamstime
The mayor of Rediu, Iași county, Cristinel Condrea, said, in a local council meeting, that he will remove the school minibus and cut the money for detergent and toilet paper from the local school due to the poor learning results of the students, reports News.ro.
“I think we have to start with other measures: to remove the minibus, to remove the detergent, to remove the toilet paper.
The mayor compared the local administration with a private company, reasoning that “most of us work in private and if something is not effective, you do not give money, that we put in a bottomless bag, without any result.”
He asked to see “a little results” at the respective school, and then “we give them benefits”.
Teachers' reply
The leader of the union of teachers from Iasi county, Laviniu Lăcustă, said that the toilet paper would be better cut in the City Hall, due to the weak results of the administration.
“The City Hall in Rediu collects only 30% of the total taxes! Although the locality is attached to Iasi does not yet have a sewerage! Our proposal would be the urgent cutting of the hygienic paper in the town hall! The lack of performance must be sanctioned!
Romania has the highest school dropout rate in the European Union
According to an Eurostat report from 2024, Romania is in the first place in the European Union at the early school dropout rate – 16.8%. The EU average is 9.3%.
The growing differences between urban and rural areas create inequalities in education: students in rural areas, where 70% of Romanians in poverty live, have more than five times higher to leave school earlier than their colleagues in the city, according to Eurostat.
By 2030, the EU set as an objective for the member countries the decrease of the school dropout rate to a maximum of 9%.
