When I first watched this show, one of the things that really captured my attention, was the first video, where a 15 year-old gipsy girl, which is married with the also young boy and waiting for their first child to be born, answered to the journalist's question about the prospective of enrolling her child (when it will be born), to school. Her words were: "I won't enroll my child to school...How it is supposed to go to school while being dirty? If I enroll my child to school the other children will say 'You are dirty. Go away'. I can't enrol my child to school. I want first to have lightening, water, and afterwards enroll it to school".
I felt quite bad for the girl, at first, and simultaneously made a quite gullible thought: "Is this the reason why she won't enroll her child to school? Because, if this is true, this is rather sad."
The second video came to reverse my initial thoughts and bring me to reality. The teacher of the second video supports that he and his colleagues go to each gipsy family and almost beg them to enroll their children to school. So, can gipsies provide such kind of arguements when the teachers say to them "Come as you are" (dirty or not, poor or not), or that they don't need to have any documents for their enrollment? Or these are nothing but excuses that gipsies use to provide in order to justify themselves for not sending their children to school? Could this be a wrong approach from the state's side and should the state attempt a more intensive and organised effort for the gipsies' intergration to school? Or both of these reasons coexist in some degree? These are some of the questions that are to be answered in the essay which will be followed by the recearch process.
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