Schools remain without students, Albanian families are fleeing west

He also used this watch to learn the remaining letters of the English alphabet because he was heading to Germany the next day to start a new life with his family. Bored that he was being separated from school, his teacher and classmates, Milot, said that they would always remain in his most beautiful memories.

Where are you going? Germany, Dad. . I will never forget my friends, nor my teacher. These friends have been so good... when I come I'll see them again. I'm worried about why I'm going there... Yeah, I'll be back around”, Milot Emini stressed.

Milot is not the only student leaving first grade. Two more students have left before him, says Myxreme teacher Navzadi.

I've got 24 students behind me, and now some have started to leave. But, just in the last two weeks three have left... And now Milot Emini. I'm very upset, worried about why the best students get away from me. They've been good, disciplined, fine, but now conditions and circumstances make themselves...”, said Mykerrem Navzadi, teacher

Even director Mustafe Abbi admits that the number of students in Kumanovo is dropping year-on-year. At the school “Bayram Shabani” for five years fewer 81 students have sat in school banks. While, only this school year will 15 students leave the country, some of whom have already left.

This has been a spiritual pain for us, since so little is the number of students who enroll in this school from the beginning of the school year. In this school year we have 15 students who want to leave the school banks of this school. Nine more left. Six of them made demands that they want to leave in the West States. That's the exact number we're north of at our school. The main factor is the social economic situation of parents who moved families to the Western world for a better life”, says school principal “Bajram Shabani”.

Such favour has affected many other municipalities in Macedonia. In the Gostivar municipality, the number of students in the primary and medium cycle has apparently decreased in the last three years. As reported by this municipality, in the primary cycle, the number of students has dropped to 138 students, while in the middle for 559 students. Despite all of this, Milotti, as well as many like him, hopes that one day again he will return home to join his family and society.