Denisa Dragan, eighth grade student at Ciugud Secondary School, Alba County, UNICEF representative and the first elected children's mayor in Romania, emphasized on Monday, in the Senate plenary, in the context of the International Children's Rights Day being celebrated on this day, that teachers must look beyond the school curriculum and respond to the real needs of children.
"Children are different, many aspects differentiate us in terms of our school, family background as well as intellectually etc. I believe that teachers of all ages can benefit from training to help them manage particular cases (...). I don't envisage long sessions, with a lot of useless pieces of information and with a well-pointed theory, but some short activities supported, preferably, by some psychologists, experienced teachers, social workers or personalities from the community, informed in this field in which different learning methods can be implemented," said Denisa, who conveyed the UNICEF Romania message on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Another student representative of the UNICEF program referred, in his message, to the limitation of the children's right to participate, namely the lack of decision-making and representative autonomy.
"In Romania, as in many other countries, the opinions of the youth, who are not encouraged enough to vote anyway, are eclipsed by the involvement of the older population (...) Furthermore, when we refer to democracy, children do not matter in democracy. We would like more autonomy in order to represent ourselves. Even from the age of 16 we should be allowed to open an NGO, to represent ourselves. If you question our competence, this demonstrates unfairness, whereas adults' competence is never in doubt, we do not see any test given to adults before they vote," argued the representative of the UNICEF program.
The Romanian Children's Board is a group made up of children of different ages, from different cities, from urban and rural environments, coming from family environments and from the child protection system, with different ethnic origins and with a varied experience in the field of representation. The Romanian Children's Board drafted the preliminary version of the "Bucharest EU Children's Declaration", an urgent appeal to the European Union and its member states to ensure that children's participation becomes a priority and a reality.AGERPRES
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