‘THUNDERSTORM IN THE BLUE FIRMAMENT’: WRITERS AGAINST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE SCHOOLS

Tert.am
18.05.10

The Writers Union of Armenia is against the recent much-debated
initiative by the Ministry of Education to opening foreign-language
schools in Armenia and calls on the Government to vote against it,
Union’s head Levon Ananyan said at a press conference today, adding
that the initiative is a "thunderstorm in the blue firmament."

According to Ananyan those arguments that the foreign-language
schools will be more competitive than the Armenian-language ones,
are just made up.

"I do not know clearly to what extent the initiators have a command
of their mother tongue," said Ananyan, calling on the government to
be courageous enough and recall the bill.

At the same time he considers it unacceptable the reasoning that the
foreign-language schools will make up only 1% of the total of the
schools in Armenia.

"The graduates of those should become the elite of our society; they
should enter the National Assembly. And that means it paves the way
for the multiplication of foreign languages. Their number will grow.

The 1% will become 3%, then 5% etc.," said Ananyan in a worry.