Crown Princess Mathilde Visits Schoolchildren

The future Queen of Belgium made a visit to the Magellan School in the Malloren/Mallores district of Brussels.

The school has 400 students of 32 different nationalities.

Princess Mathilde was greeted by the young schoolchildren, who sang a song about how they may fight now and then, but always make up.

There was also a teacher’s conference in which the teachers explained to Mathilde that their job isn’t always easy. Having a large multicultural school can be difficult, and some teachers deal with students who have never been to school in their home countries.

The Magellan School receives extra money from the Belgian government in order to provide a social worker. That social worker negotiates between the school and the parents, whose biggest concern is often not the education of their children but finding the money to feed them.