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The purpose of the research is to identify the problems experienced by foreign students of primary school at school in Atakum, a district of Samsun province that receives intense immigration, and to get any suggestion for solving these problems from school administrators and teachers. For carrying out the research, the data of 3 primary schools in Atakum district, where the number of foreign students is the highest, were collected with the permission of Atakum District Directorate of National Education, and the opinions of 3 administrators and 8 teachers in these schools were collected via a semi-structured interview form. As a result of the analyzes made, the problems experienced by foreign students at school have generally been seen as language problems, discipline problems, academic failure, not participating in social activities, financial problems, and not attending school. It has been determined that the most important thing at the root of the problems is the language problem. It has been seen that foreign students are generally Iraqi and their financial situation is good, while financial problems are a bigger problem for Syrian and Afghan students. According to the solution suggestions received from school administrators and teachers, it has been stated that foreign students should not be put together in certain schools; equivalence procedures should not be carried out only on the basis of age; teachers and administrators should receive training on these kinds of students; and foreign students should be primarily given language education.

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