Epress.am News from Armenia
After a day of boycott, the Vardges Petrosyan school in Ashtarak has conditionally resumed classes. The school’s pedagogical staff and the parent committee have again been given optimistic promises from high-ranking officials of the Aragatsotn province.
On September 26, the parent committee of the school after Vardges Petrosyan and the pedagogical staff, including the headmaster, announced an open-ended strike, demanding a major overhaul of the 60-year-old school building, which houses more than 600 children instead of the envisaged 200.
Speaking to Epress.am, headmaster Grisha Gevorgyan said Aragatsotn governor Ashot Simonyan and Ashtarak mayor Tovmas Shahverdyan went to the school today and discussed the issue. It was decided that renovation works at the school would begin in 3 days or “in January, the latest.” Despite the officials’ uncertain promise, the headmaster is convinced that “the process is proceeding dynamically” and the issue will soon be resolved.