The mayor who wanted to leave the students without toilet paper because they have small notes: “I am not with the remuneration to stupidity”

The mayor of Rediu commune, Iași county, announced in the meeting of the Local Council that he will cut the funds for the school minibus, detergent and toilet paper, as a reaction to the weak results of the students.

Cristinel Condrea, mayor of Rediu commune, Iași county: Facebook

Cristinel Condrea, the mayor of Rediu, Iași County, told a meeting of the Local Council that he intends to withdraw several facilities offered to the local school, due to the poor performances of the students to the teaching.

“I think we have to start with other measures: to remove the minibus, to remove the detergent, to remove the toilet paper. I am not with the remunerate to stupidity. And from the chancellery we remove the toilet paper ”, said the mayor in front of the councilors, reports News.ro.

The mayor made a parallel between the public administration and a private company, claiming that, in the absence of efficiency, the investments are no longer justified: “Most are also working in private and, if something is not effective, you do not give money, because we put in a bottomless bag, without any result. ”

Condrea asked “A bit of results“From the school and added that only after they appear, students and teachers will receive”BENEFITS”.

The reaction of the school management: “Access to hygiene is not a privilege”

Mihaela Nistor, the director of the Rediu Gymnasium School, publicly responded to the statements, categorically rejecting any connection between hygiene and school performance.

“Within our school there was never a discussion or proposal regarding the conditioning of access to hygiene products by the students' school results. Moreover, the Board of Directors of the School is the competent forum that establishes, through the annual procurement plan, the need for hygiene and cleaning materials. ”

“We believe that access to hygiene products is a fundamental right, not a prime -conditioned privilege of school performance. Currently, our school has sufficient cleaning and hygiene materials, the children having ensured the conditions necessary to carry out the instructional-educational act. ”

Teachers' reaction: “Urgent cutting of the hygienic paper in the town hall!”

The mayor's statements were harshly criticized by the leader of the union of teachers from Iași county, Laviniu Lăcustă. He accused the local administration of lack of performance and suggested that the sanctions start from the town hall.

“The City Hall in Rediu collects only 30% of the total taxes! Although the locality is attached to Iasi, it has no sewerage yet! Our proposal would be the urgent cutting of the hygienic paper in the town hall! Lack of performance must be sanctioned! I even think about cutting water in the institution! Can understand something and the mayor“He wrote in a Facebook post.

The mayor returns to the statements: “A communication error”

Subsequently contacted by John's generation, Mayor Ioan Condrea tried to clarify the situation, saying that his statements were taken out of context and that they were not made in an official framework.

“Filming in the public space is taken from context. It was a free discussion, nothing clear. Maybe I expressed myself wrong. It was a communication error. I come to support the community and I want the education for the students in Rediu to continue to be a priority.“

Condrea also added that it would never apply a prohibition measure for hygiene products for students with weak results and let it be understood that its statements were used for political purposes.

Romania, leader in EU school dropout

The incident from Rediu comes against the background of a systemic crisis in education. According to a Eurostat report from 2024, Romania has the highest early school dropout rate in the European Union – 16.8%, compared to the EU average of 9.3%.

The disappearances between the rural and urban areas play a major role: students from rural areas, where 70% of Romanians in poverty live, have more than five times higher to give up school than their colleagues in cities. The European Union has established as objective to reduce school dropout below 9% by 2030.