The backyard of the education system: about 21,000 youth out of bounds
The chance that an 18-12 year old boy will hold a criminal case is 4.5 times higher if he does not study in a recognized educational setting - according to the Knesset Research Center.
Many of these students are in unattended ultra-Orthodox educational institutions.
Along with the dangers of degenerating into crime, a new kind of life outside the framework has developed
Uri Sela
08/06/2022
Wednesday, 08 June 2022, 06:00
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About 11,000 of the dropouts - aged 15-13.
Empty class (Photo: Flash 90, Noam Rivkin Fenton / Flash 90)
21,699 youth are not in a recognized educational setting - this was the result of a report published this morning (Wednesday) by the Knesset's Research and Information Center.
The document shows that the problem begins at a young age, with 10,963 dropouts aged only 15-13, and the rest aged 17-16.
In contrast to the last age group, the situation does not improve among young people, and the numbers have remained similar throughout the last decade.
From the data produced by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) for the report, it was found that 21% of youth who are not in a recognized educational institution have never studied in one. At the top of the list is broken down by education system: 4.7% of all youth associated with supervised ultra-Orthodox education are not in it, compared with 3.7% in Arab education, 1.4% in general state education and 1.3% in state-religious education.
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"Severe Emotional Problems."
Empty class (Photo: Sharon Bukov)
In a lateral view, a decrease in the phenomenon is seen.
Ten years ago there were close to 6,000 more teenagers who did not study in the frameworks.
However, segmentation by age shows that the trend is only partial: the entire decline was among 17-16-year-olds, while the number of 15-13-year-olds remained constant at about 10,000, and even rose slightly.
The number of dropouts each year is also stable, between 11,000 and 13,000, if we put aside the two years of the corona plague that obscured the count.
Those teens stay out of the Ministry of Education's field of vision.
And as the distance from supervision increases, the dangers they face increase.
Crime, increased use of alcohol and drugs and deterioration into prostitution are just some of the threats.
According to CBS data, the chance of an 18-12 year old boy holding a criminal record is 4.5 times higher if he does not study in a recognized educational setting.
A new kind of life
"Dropout figures are worrying."
MK Margie (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman, Danny Shem Tov)
Alongside the stereotypical extremes, in recent years a new kind of life outside the framework has developed.
"Some teens really hang out at night and are involved in severe violence. But some just stay home and on social media and don't go out. They have very severe social and emotional issues, anxiety and eating disorders, using obscuring substances. , Described Roi Humri, head of street work at Elam, in a conversation with Walla !.
The association, accustomed to making contact with the youth in benches and parks, had to invent new methods.
"Now we work on social media, Instagram and Tiktok, and find depressing posts and writing about suicidal content. We identify the style of the text, and from there try to talk and move on to a frontal meeting," said Materiali.
"The lack of encounter with peers is devastating. The social field that happens in school is far more important than the pedagogical field. It is essential for development, the ability to communicate with each other, to contain a range of emotions. Once you have no one to experiment with - you are in trouble."
"The state must strengthen the amount of resources it gives to the education systems in general, and to the care systems within the education system in particular. The knowledge they have accumulated in programs like Hila should be applied throughout the education system," he stressed. time.
"When the educational figure takes this step and says, 'I reach out to you,' it gives the child a sense of place."
"The drop-out rate in the state education system in general and in the ultra-Orthodox district in particular is very worrying. It seems that the ultra-Orthodox education system is the backyard of the Ministry of Education," added Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Yaakov Margi (Shas), whose report was prepared. As chair of the Education Committee in the 20th and 21st Knesset, I have done everything in my power to raise this painful issue on the public agenda, but it seems that the decision-makers in the Ministry of Education preferred to allow the freedom of action of problematic officials in the ultra-Orthodox district. "I call on the Minister of Education and the Director General of her office to establish an independent steering team immediately, which will examine the dropout data, in order to provide a professional toolbox for education systems and especially in ultra-Orthodox education, in an effort to significantly reduce dropouts in the education system."
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