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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Joanna Plucinska

Stay or return home? Tough choice for Ukrainian refugees as school year starts

Pupils gather during a school assembly at Tadeusz Gajcy School No. 58 as a text is seen on a board, in Warsaw, Poland, September 1, 2022. The text reads 'Knowledge we can gain from others, but wisdom we must learn by ourselves.' REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Ukrainian children streamed into new schools across central Europe for the first time on Thursday, staying abroad after others returned home to familiar classrooms and the dangers of war.

With many having not attended previously as their parents, after fleeing to central Europe, kept them out of local schools in hopes of a quick end to the war, the continuing conflict had school systems in Poland, Czech Republic and elsewhere braced for potentially hundreds of thousands of new foreign students.

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