INSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 8.6. Education With regard to the situation in the educational institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ombudsmen, on the basis of their visits, state that the material situation in many schools is poor, and that work should be done to modernize the schools in material and technical terms (equip classrooms for subject teaching, strengthen the IT equipment of schools, complete school libraries, etc.), enable adequate realization of physical education classes (construction of new ones, rehabilitation of existing sports halls and courts), provide free textbooks and organized school transportation to as many children as possible, and for socially disadvantaged categories one meal a day during school day, to facilitate the practice of extended school attendance in all those municipalities where there is a need for it, to encourage Roma children to attend compulsory primary and secondary education on a regular basis 381. Special attention should be paid to the inclusion of children with special educational needs as this directly affects their education. The violation of the rights of this category of children in the education system, according to the complaints received, is mainly manifested in the lack of basic means of work (it is necessary to remove physical barriers and make schools technically accessible to this population of children; to provide sufficient number of experts, teaching assistants and to educate teaching staff to work with children with special educational needs; reduce the prejudices of children and adults about the needs and opportunities of children with developmental disabilities, etc.). Ombudsmen find that efforts need to be stepped up to increase the reach of children in pre-school education and education, initiate through responsible ministries all local communities to create action plans for children with a view to greater involvement in pre-school education, use existing capacities in rural and suburban areas (adapted premises in schools and local communities, trained staff), in order to enable the children from rural and suburban areas to obtain the right to pre-school education through the pre-school program for children, if not covered by some form of pre-school education, to strengthen the educational system the role of schools through the creation of the necessary preconditions for the continuous realization of additional programs of preventive, cultural, artistic, scientific-research and sports work with children. Example: Ombudsmen received a complaint by a child's mother 382, who considered the contested scoring for various teaching and extracurricular activities, competitions, by which the school allegedly "harmed" her child. The Ombudsmen found that there were certain irregularities, which were remedied in the repeated selection process, but their elimination did not result in the choice of the complainant's daughter as a generation student, but it was clearly stated that the school did not violate the regulations. On the other hand, the school is invited to take more care in the future elections to fulfill all the formal requirements for the selection of students of the generation, to comply with the School Rules and to conduct the process openly and transparently. The procedures 381 Children in their Alternative Report on the State of the Rights of the Child in Bosnia and Herzegovina state: Data on school hygiene are extremely difficult to obtain and generalize. However, practice shows that hygiene in schools is not quite satisfactory. In school toilets, for the most part, there is no hot water and adequate soap, and a towel and a hand dryer. This is especially true of schools in rural areas. The situation is further complicated when there is water reduction in some places or through floods ... 382 Ž-BL-01-340/19 92