there is also a need to guarantee that teachers and students have the materials they need in rural schools in addition there are strong arguments for reorganising small schools so they better serve their students this reorganisation however needs to be implemented so it does not put at risk students continuation in the education system the government may consider expanding or revising remedial programmes that are in place for students who are in the transition to upper secondary education and make sure that students coming from rural areas receive special attention however it is not clear if all students with special educational needs are benefitting from the programme and there are some special needs that might be overdiagnosed failure in the diagnosis of children with special needs has high costs both for individual students and for the education system as a whole