More than 100,000 out-of-school children will return to school this Monday

Published at: 12/09/2025 03:39 PM

The goal of 100% schooling set by the Minister of Education, Héctor Rodríguez, has so far managed to place about 110,000 children and young people who were out of the education system and will return to classes starting Monday with the new school year.

This announcement was made by the minister himself during the closing day of the teacher training plan that began last Monday in the context of the new school year.

“We are going to register them, they start on Monday and I ask them: zero bureaucracy, that if they lack a document, that if we have to level them, then we do it. If the boy doesn't have shoes, he doesn't have a uniform, he doesn't have the tools, we give them to him, but we can't leave any boy, any girl unenrolled, do it as if the boy were your son,” he stressed from the headquarters of the educational office, in Caracas.

Rodríguez, according to a note from the Ministry of Education, emphasized that it is not enough just to enroll them, but that “we must accompany them”, because they are children and young people who surely come from difficult environments, some will have reduced mobility or live in places far away from school and daily travel is difficult for them.

“Enrolling them is a challenge, but having them go to classes every day is a bigger challenge. We are responsible for this, if the child is missing a few days, to alert, to go knock on the door and know why. We have to defend that all our boys and girls go to classes every day,” he said.

Rodríguez recalled that this initiative began last August to search “house by house” for those children and young people who, for various reasons such as migration, vulnerable environment, material conditions, among others, have had to leave the classroom. It involves not only teachers and ministry staff, but also involves the community, through community governments and social movements.

Mazo News Team