User:DomVenchess/sandbox

Basic Background Information
In this country there are about 5,000 schools total. The government pays for their public schools, and they have just recently opened up some private schools as well. Their primary education lasts eight years, then after that most students continue their secondary education for four years. Throughout the years in Albania they have changed as a country, after ending communism old propaganda was removed from all of the schools. As time went on they became a democracy and that had a big impact on their education. Becoming a democracy shifted their focus onto things like mathematics, sciences, and humanities. They are now even discussing civil society, human rights, and laws in the schools, broadening the students mind to discuss new things.

The Big Issue
The big issue for this country is when parents migrate and leave their children behind, the child falls prone to having a tough time get through their education. From 1990 to 2005 twenty-two percent of children under the age of eighteen where left behind by their parents. Parents migrate seeking new jobs/occupations that will hopefully benefit them and their family, in any way possible, especially financially. The average time that the guardian is gone is about nine months. With little or no parental guidance children do not show up for school. A survey conducted in 2005 called "The Living Standard Measurement Survey" concluded that parental migration has had a negative effect on school attendance. As children don't go to school, that increases their chances of becoming a drop-out, with no real education to go out into the world with. In the last fifteen years a significant drop in enrollment has been recorded, as well as a very big decrease in their secondary schooling enrollment as well, in coordination with their parents migrating. Most of the time it is the father that will be the one to leave and migrate, but other times it is the mother, or in some cases it is both the mother and father. Even when one parent leaves it is difficult for the whole entire family to adjust, especially the children, they may not listen to the parent/guardian that has stayed behind with them, or they may act out just because they are frustrated that the other parent has left. The last thing that the child is going to want to do is go to school when their family is going through a major transition like a family member leaving. The citizens in Albania believe that the only way to endure being in poverty, is to migrate and produce as much money as they can for themselves/families. With the citizens being under the impression that they have to leave in order to be successful, makes them all want to migrate, seeing that there is nothing for them in their own country. These families do not have the money to migrate their whole entire family with them, forcing them to go alone, and leave behind their loved ones. In the last fifteen years, only one and three Albanian households have experienced a positive impact on their household consumption, and poverty reduction.