Romeu Zema: In Brazil, what we have today — I talk a lot with some teachers — are students who sometimes come from poorer families who even receive Bolsa Família, and the teacher says, 'they don't come'; when the mother is warned that she might stop receiving Bolsa Família she starts to worry a little.
Romeu Zema: So, in my opinion, every father and mother should be responsible — whether or not they receive Bolsa Família — for their children's attendance.
Just as you need to be up to date with your tax payments, you also need to be up to date with your child's school attendance.
Romeu Zema: Do you understand?
Romeu Zema: I think that in a country where people still don't have that sense of the importance of attending school, we need to toughen the rule a bit.