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Roma
comprise around 10-13 % of all pupils. Most live in
Plovdiv - Stolipino, Purvomai and the nearby villages:
Assenovgrad, Karlovo, and Sopot. The biggest problem
is the powerful community in Stolipino, which creates
its own order. The ghetto life presents a model for
all educational and social problems of Roma. Few Roma
leave the neighborhood, and few take interest in education.
Most parents are poor and unemployed, while a few
families are very rich. Rich Roma have not made their
fortunes as a result of education, but illegally and
most children leave school after the 8th grade. Roma
rarely graduate from secondary school. The exceptions
are from Plovdiv and Assenovgrad. The school in Assenovgrad
offers excellent education. The village Roma apply
to the SPSs in Sadovo and Purvomai. Each year 3-4
graduates of SS "Naiden Gerov" - Plovdiv
continue their education in university.
Lately
Roma have started to consider themselves of Turkish
origin, which to a certain extent explains why many
girls leave school after the 4-5th grade.
The specifics of the region are close to the "perfect"
reality type: the combination of big city and big
ghetto (Plovdiv); medium-size city with good Roma
school (Assenovgrad); and villages with a Roma majority
(Boiantzi in the Assenovgrad municipality, and the
villages around Purvomai).
Part
of the members of Roma community have a Bulgarian
identity, while others, richer one, identify themselves
as Turks. Half of Roma speak Turkish. The ghetto community
is self-sufficient and rarely Roma from the nearby
villages are admitted. In the villages families barely
survive. In the months of April-May Roma from all
over the country migrate to the Rodopi mountains to
gather herbs and mushrooms.
1. Ct. Assenovgrad, "Oborishte" str.
110, PS "N. I. Vaptzarov" - 80 %
2. Vl. Boiantzi, "Rila" str. 2, PS
"Prof. A. Zlatarov" - 90 %
3. Ct. Sadovo, Secondary School of Agriculture
- 10-30 %
4. Vl. Chalukovi, PS - 85-90 %
5. Vl. Popovitza - 20-30 %
6.1. Ct. Purvomai, PS "Sv. Kiril i Metodii"
- 30-33 %
6.2. Purvomai, RD "Debur", "Knjaz
Boris I" str. 188, PS "G. Karaslavov"
- 90-100 %
7.1. Plovdiv, PS "P. Volov" - 90-100
%
7.2. Plovdiv, "Batak" str. 5, PPS
"P. Slaveikov"
- 90-100 %
7.3. Plovdiv, ES "K. Nektariev" -
90-100 %
7.4. Plovdiv, SS "N. Gerov" - 90-100
%
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