The Dominican school system is quite different than the U.S. school system. Every little area has it’s own primary school so classes are quite small. However, the kids only go to school for about 4 hours a day and we were shown a statistic today that said on average only 2.4 hours of that is educational time. For secondary schools the kids have to travel longer distances which for many is too expensive or they are needed to help work on family farms or in the house so many children don’t go past the 8th grade. Here are some pictures of a couple of schools I visited while we were distributing water filters in the area where Anne and Tim lived.
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