Over 650,000 teachers will join the students on the school break, which ends on Feb. 9. Several students received awards after getting their report cards. In an İstanbul school, basketballs and volleyballs were given to students with high grades while successful students of Erzurum schools received various prizes, including books, from the governor, in a ceremony marking the end of the semester. Ali Çetin from Antalya, a leukemia patient, was one of the students who received a report card yesterday.
“Our son has overcome his disease but his health checks continue. He learned how to read and write thanks to the teacher appointed by the directorate. We are very happy,” Ali’s father told the Anatolia news agency.
 A Hatay school ran into some complications during the distribution of report cards because all the students have the same last name, Dadük. |
A school in the village of Gözene, Hatay province, ran into some complications yesterday during the distribution of report cards because all the students have the same last name, Dadük. The 300 students finally got their report cards after teachers matched students by their school numbers. First graders were identified by their names and parents’ names. Teachers told the Cihan news agency that when they called Ali Dadük to take his report card, about 20 students came up.
While most 11-year-olds are in fifth grade, Mehmet Avcı is completing first grade because his mother did not allow him to attend school, fearing something bad would happen to him. Expressing his happiness at being able to go to school like other children, Avcı said he did not have any difficulties at school because his mother taught him how to read and write. His mother, Fatma Avcı (47), said, however, that she is not happy to have sent her child to school. “I don’t trust people. I lost almost all the people I love. I did not send him to school fearing something would happen to him on his way to school. He insisted on going to school, so I let him, but I continue to worry as much as ever,” she told Cihan.
Education Minister Nimet Çubukçu distributed the report cards of students attending the Kafkas elementary and middle schools in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, where she is on an official visit.
