The parents in the cross, where the 9th class of professional has been abolished, are desperate: “What do those people do, what do those children?”
Several parents from the town of Crucea, from Constanța county, who found out, two days before the school starts, that the 9th class of professional will not work in the locality, still stay with the children's files at home, hoping to return to the decision. Some say that children who do not want to go to another locality are, others-that they do not allow their costs.
The Crucea Technological High School no longer has the 9th professional photo: FB/CRUCEA TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
The school started for two days, but not for all children. There are graduates of gymnasiums who, on Thursday, last week, knew that they would go on September 8 to the Crucea Technological High School, so that the next day, on Friday, their parents will be announced by the school representatives that the class is no longer realized and that they must teach their files, to enroll in the school, but to the school, There were 14 students in this situation, a situation similar to the one in the town of Nicolae Bălcescu, where on August 25, they will also be transmitted that the 9th grade will not work and that they have to find solutions.
Parents are upset for at least two reasons. The big upset is that their sons/daughters can no longer attend school near the house, where they can supervise the children and where the costs have estimated, they are lower. On the other hand, they are revolted that they did not actually have the opportunity to choose a school away from home, if they still have to do this, to match the children's wishes, but have been put in a situation of finding a free place, wherever they are.
“I said maybe, maybe we manage to tie them, Bălcescu and Crucea, somehow”
Ileana Cernica is the mother of one of the students initially registered at the Crucea Technological High School. He did not take into account another variant, because it seemed the most convenient to have the child under supervision. Here he graduated from the gymnasium, here he hoped to finish his vocational school, as it happened to many children in the locality. Because the news that the class is no longer coming to come very late, but also because the boy refuses to go somewhere else, he stays with the file at home, hoping that one way or another can return to the decision and either the class from the Crucea Technological High School, or the one from the “IC Brătianu” Technological High School, Nicolae Bălcescu can be made.
“I enrolled him at the cross. All well until Friday at 10.30 in the morning. On Friday, the lady sent us that the 9th grade is not held, it was abolished. And let's come to school to discuss. All parents. There were about 13 students. And I came and discussed. Okay, not all parents, I was just me. Finally, it's not a problem. I said to represent the whole class, all the children, because there are quite a few children who are in the rural and cannot afford to go further. (…) I said maybe, we may be able to tie them, Bălcescu – Crucea, Crucea – Bălcescu, somehow, because in Bălcescu there are enough children who have remained so. It doesn't seem normal to me. I mean, as a state, you oblige the child to have 10 classes and when he has to come to school, you say on the last day that it is not done anymore.
My mother says it's incomprehensible how she got here. They were initially told that at the Crucea Technological High School, 17 children were registered, some including from Nicolae Bălcescu, a locality located 20 km away, where it was already announced that no class was made. “And in the ministry it appears to be 13. Well, where are they, my man, those four children? Where are they?”, The woman is surprised.
Ileana Cernica is also revolted by the fact that the formation of these classes does not take into account the repeated students, who in turn made requests for re -enrollment. “They said they didn't get in number. How, sir, are they not in number? But I'm not kids? Do we disadvantage them of everything? Doesn't they have a future too? What do you want to get? That they are parallel anyway today, schools are how they are, do you do everything? ”expressed its revolt Ileana Cernica.
His son categorically rejects the idea of enrolling in a school away from the village in which he grew up, says his mother.
“My child doesn't want to go out. He is a child … My child has animals at home and my child has been learned here. He doesn't want to leave here. He learned with students, teachers, domain. He doesn't want to leave. I told him, I take him to Hârșova, I take him to Ovid. He said-I do not go, you can force me, do what you want, I do not go ”, Mom said.
The mother made a road to school and Tuesday, September 9, 2025, called to pick up the file. “Why should I take the file? I take him to keep him home?”the woman insists, motivating that the situation is not accepted.
From the discussions that the children had in the group, “at least eight” students of the eighth-grade graduates initially registered at the Cross would not have enrolled in other schools, said the student's mother in the Cross. Neither of those who enrolled in other high schools will attend, the woman is convinced, because there were situations in the past years when they enrolled in schools in the city and would eventually transfer them, because “they did not allow themselves”.
The woman says that if she does not solve the situation, the child will stay at home, hoping that next year the class will be able to form.
“Maybe the year is done. But they forget until the year and as they call them with the bulletin in hand.adds the mother.
The hope is that the situation will be solved somehow, all the more so that for the class from Nicolae Bălcescu there is an endeavor, and the children from the village who left for Hârșova or Constanța will return, the student's mother is convinced.
“He doesn't want anywhere. What can you do to them? To kill him? To throat it? ”the woman said.
Parents who also have older children, still students at the cross, professional, in years or III, are now afraid that the other classes will abolish, because among them this variant is carried.
“I think we have to look more at classes I – VIII”
The mayor of the town of Crucea, Iulian Tudorache, says that he tried, until a point to change the course of the Crucea Technological High School, a unit that, due to the very weak results at the baccalaureate, did not receive, at one point, the permission to train high school classes, remaining with the professional ones.
“There are no chances (n. Red.-to return to the decision not to form the class), and from what I understand, one of the criteria is also the level of training of the students and the way these things happen until the end of the internship, until the 11th grade, the 12th. In the conditions in which we have not had a graduate for years,”the mayor said that he would have explained from the level of Constanța how such a decision was reached. “I believe that we must look more at classes I – VIII, to give the children to take the evaluation, to enter a high school, not only to make a presence after the 9th grade.”added the mayor, betraying his own dissatisfaction with high school performance. He says he tried to provide school with everything needed. Moreover, he even had discussions to try a change in school profile (has agricultural profile). He was thinking of an electricians, a partnership with important economic agents, only that he found support from the school level.
As for the situation created, the mayor says that he is willing to provide the students who will make the shuttle in other localities the transport from the villages where they live to the stations for the minibuses that make the intra -regional transport. He will support them as much as he can, it is important to continue his school course, the mayor said.
“He started crying and telling me: Mommy, no longer insisted, that I do not go to Hârșova”
Another high school graduate now refuses, says her mother, to accept the option to take the courses in another locality. He also enrolled in the cross and found out, like the others, on Friday, that school will not start in the village. “I talked to the girl to register it in Hârșova, but she doesn't want to. Anyway, I had problems with her and here, you were in Hârșova. She is more sensitive, more withdrawn, more … she does not want in any way. I spoke these days with her. I would have been willing, only she doesn't want to. I pushed her from the back as much as I could, I talked to her, I encouraged her, I told her that any decision will be with her, but she does not want to go to Hârșova, and in Constanța I have no possibilities. She would have wanted to Crucea, but if it happened what happened … I can't conceive: for so long, since I scored the children, we could not find out on Friday, he couldn't tell us in time? Maybe we were preparing the children in another way. Too suddenly it was for them to find out ”said Ionela Sava, the student's mother, contacted by “Adevărul”.
The General School Inspector of the Constanța County School Inspectorate, Sorin Mihai, said for “Adevărul” that from the data presented by the director of the High School in Crucea, on Monday, September 8, there were five unaccompanied students in the 9th grade, the information not being updated today.
“On Monday he had sent us information, there were five that he did not know where they signed up. In the rest all registered. I also directed to Ciobanu, who made a class and which is proximity. From Nicolae Bălcescu, from what I know, I do not think they have remained unaccated. I think there were three at some point, but we will look for them in Sir (the integrated computer system in Romania). There we will get in touch with DGASPC, with social assistance, because they have to be registered somewhere ”, said the head of IȘJ Constanța.
Although school dropout is an almost taboo topic, every time the officials are placed on the table, invoking the law that stipulates that pre -university education is mandatory in Romania, the reality in the field shows quite differently. Every year students remain at home after graduating from the gymnasium, and others leave school even earlier. Almost one third of the students at the age at which they should continue their educational course in high school or vocational school are not found, in fact, in the education system.
According to the 2025 edition of the OCDE publication “Education at a Glance”, launched on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, during an event transmitted on the YouTube channel of the Ministry of Education and Research, the figures of school dropout also place us at the tail of the ranking.
“On average, at the OCDE level, only 2% of children between the ages of 6 and 14 are not enrolled in the education system, compared to 16% in Romania. This weight is higher among the older groups: in Romania, 32% of children between the ages It is shown in the country note for Romania.
