HÎRLĂU

Hîrlău is a town in the Iași County,

Moldova, Romania.

Outside the main town,

the settlement

also includes Pârcovaci

neighborhood.

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The town is located in the north-west, on the banks of Bahlui River. According to the 2011 census the town population rises to 10905 residents.

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Most of the inhabitants are Romanian (85,98%) and the confessional majority is Christian-Orthodox (91,04%).

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The first documentary attestation dates back to 1384. There are three monuments of historical and national interest at Hîrlău: whole royal medieval court of Stephen the Great and two churches: Saint George and Saint Dumitru.

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The town’s economy is characterized by textile industry, wood processing industry and food industry. The town has hotels, banks, hospitals (a state hospital and a medical clinic), schools (two elementary, two high schools), pharmacies and supermarkets.

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In the south of Hîrlău there is the famous vineyard named Cotnari. The most important occupation of the inhabitants is agriculture: harvesting and animal breeding. They also do gardening and fruit growing. 

The Technological Highs

chool Hîrlău

 The Techonogical HighShool Hîrlău

 (Liceul Tehnologic Hîrlău) responds to the requirements of the community, of the social and

professional development of the young people from Hîrlău by offering quality training in

various fields: mechanics, textile

and leather industry, civil constructions,

wood processing, food industry, tourism and

catering.

 The Technological Highschool Hîrlău

The aim is to ensure real

chances/opportunities of socio-

professional integration. The Technological High school

Hîrlău has 830 students, 60 teachers, and

two head teachers. It has 4 buildings: 3 are used for

classes and one contains

laboratories.

THE TECHNOLOGICAL HIGHSCHOOL HÎRLĂU

 

The school has suitable facilities

and material resources, twelve

regular classrooms, one

specific classroom for TP

(Therapy Pedagogy),

specific rooms for Technology, Music

and Arts, a library, two laboratories

(Biology and P&C) and departments for the different

subjects.

 THE TECHNOLOGICAL HIGHSCHOOL HÎRLĂU 

In Romania, including ours, a major problem is

the left-alone children/students

, with parents who left to work

abroad. The origin of this problem is

poverty. Willing to offer a better

material situation, the

parents are going abroad to work

and send money to their children. 

THE TECHNOLOGICAL HIGHSCHOOL HÎRLĂU

 

They are left with grandparents or

they are living with only one parent and some of the

duties of the gone parent are falling

on their shoulders. We have a lot of

similar cases in our school.

Unfortunately, in many cases they are left alone at

home for 6 months/ 1 year. The parents are

coming home only in vacations.

 THE TECHNOLOGICAL HIGHSCHOOL HÎRLĂU

 The connection is maintained

only by phone. They have to take care of

themselves and also to learn for school. Some of

them are already working . We

have also students with

only one parent, one of them is dead. They are suffering and

they find it hard to be happy, to play, to sing, to dance and to learn as their

colleagues do. 

 THE TECHNOLOGICAL HIGHSCHOOL HÎRLĂU

Most of the families in our school are characterized by:

living in marginalization,

having few economic

resources, having a high rate of

unemployment, precarious or low-

qualification employment, having a low

learning level, showing poor

involvement in their children learning

process, living with violence within the

family context. 

 THE TECHNOLOGICAL HIGHSCHOOL HÎRLĂU

 The parents are not really involved in

their children’s lives and sometimes the teachers know the

children better than their parents: their personality, their

tastes, their preferences, their aptitudes, their

talents, their feelings. Statistics in our

school are saying that the parents are

interested in their children’s evolution in school and in society at the beginning of

high-school (9th grade): at the

meetings that are organized by the

class masters/tutor teachers are coming 40% of them in the

first year.

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As the children grow up, their

interest is getting lower and lower: -9th grade: 40% of them -10th

grade: 33% -11th grade: 24% -12th grade: only 15%

Also we have observed that only 18% of parents are helping their children in

solving the tasks that they have to

do for school: doing projects, learning, doing homework etc.

THE TECHNOLOGICAL HIGHSCHOOL HÎRLĂU

We are trying to increase the parent

involvement by group counseling, individual counseling, individual

and collective discussions, by including the

students and their parents in national

programs like Saturday School

(Saturday School for both parents and children: they are

supported by a group of teachers and

national coordinators with group

educational activities, financial support and

free meals ). Obviously this is not

enough.