Opening Foreign-Language Schools Issue can Also be Called Prostitution?

Members of the initiative “We are against the re-opening of foreign-language schools” in Armenia organized a protest today in front of the National Assembly building in Yerevan.

Armen Hovhannisyan, one of the protestors and a member of the group, said he was convinced that through consistency, determination and unity, they will reach their goal and won’t allow foreign-language schools to open in Armenia. 

“We will reach our goal; the rest are technical issues. We urge parliamentarians to put their party’s interests to one side and to vote dictated by their conscience, or not to participate in the vote at all,” he said. 

To RA Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan’s statement that the issue of foreign-language schools is not on the current (government) agenda, that this is an issue only of international educational programs, Hovhannisyan said, this issue can be worded differently: “It can be called prostitution; it can also be called alternative behavior.”

Recall that at the four-day National Assembly session beginning today, a decision on making amendments to the draft law on language and general education, which includes the opening of foreign-language schools in Armenia, will be adopted.