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I LHAM, Mohamed, Nada, Hamza, Abdelaziz, Sara... Let’s give a name to What fate could await most of these former students who left the system
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all these children ejected each year from public school, because although too soon, faced with rejection and failure? The youngest pupils or students will
the figures for school dropouts are impressive, they should not hide the undoubtedly fall back into illiteracy. Most of them will be doomed to wande-
fact that these are real people, children, and teenagers whose destiny is forever ring on the job market without any qualifications. They will have no choice
turned upside down, because public schools have not been able to retain them but to take one small precarious job after another. Others will swell the ranks
and offer them a chance to get by. of young NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) who do not do
From 2000 to 2013, about 5 million pupils dropped out of school, according much with their lives.
to the Higher Council for Education. Between 2014 and 2017, more than 1.3 The Higher Council for Education, the Court of Auditors, and recently the
million pupils dropped out of school. Since then, if one takes an average of CNDH (National Council for Human Rights) have pointed the finger at the
300,000 departures per year, one will have to add some 1.5 million to those phenomenon which is one of the great misfortunes of Moroccan schools. But
figures. In total, therefore, over the past 22 years, school dropouts can be what to do? All the recommendations, strategies, and reforms and all the sup-
estimated at nearly 7.8 million. This is almost the equivalent of the annual port programs have so far not worked so well. Meanwhile, millions continue to
enrollment of the three cycles (primary education, secondary, and high school), pay the price. Who will pay for them? All of us, because our destiny depends
public and private. A real mess... on the quality of our human capital.o