Darian is a student in the 10th grade in the Natural Sciences profile, which was the most competitive class for admission. If most of the students who enter high school prepare themselves privately with expensive meditations for their parents, Darian entered this profile on his own.
His parents have been absent from his life for a long time and he found his motivation to learn by himself. The person who takes care of Darian and his little sister is their father’s sister. Their aunt makes sure that they have a roof over their heads, food and clothing, so the children sometimes call her mother. But she has her own family, her own children, her own problems, which makes the material shortages quite acute.
Because the conditions at home were not the most conducive to study, his chance was to pay attention to classes at school and work as hard as possible during the four hours a week he spent at the educational center supported by United Way, where he had begun to come in middle school
After a while, the center’s tutors have realized that the boy, intelligent and ambitious, needed differentiated work. While the other children were doing the scheduled activities, he was solving model subjects for assessment. In mathematics, he solved the subjects without help, but in the Romanian language he encountered difficulties. The hardest thing for him was to write argumentative essays, compositions or descriptions, because he was afraid to express himself freely. In the following period, Darian began to stay an hour or two more after the other children had left, during which the teachers at the center could quietly explain to him what he found more difficult to understand.
Darian successfully passed the National Assessment, even though he did not have, like his classmates, family support, encouragement and motivation. No one, ever, told him: “Go to school!”, “Do your homework!”, “Learn!”. He did all this because he wanted to. He came to school and always loved learning. Colleagues admire him, encourage him, include him in all their activities. As every child deserves.
