Tens of Albanian students are forced to learn Macedonian

Indulged about this situation, parents and children have been boycotting the lesson and adding that the same will continue until the problem is resolved.

We want the school to continue until 9th grade in Albanian. By the 5th teach Albanian, then they have to register in Gazi Baba. So they have to travel every day. For a 10-year-old to travel on a bus, it's too heavy. ”

What's wrong? Why don't you go to 6th grade?

Because it's only Macedonian and they don't give us in 6th and Albanian.

- What language do you want to learn?

Albanian.

We are boycotting the lesson why we are not given the opportunity to learn in Albanian until 9th grade. We haven't been given permission in years. The obstacle remains at school and at the mayor of the municipality, who does not submit requests to the Ministry of Education”, said Rizvan Seferi, parent.

Parents accuse school principal Nikola Nastevski that on the list he hands over to Gazi Baba municipality, he lowers the number of Albanian students. The municipality, based on that list, where according to parents, it finds only two students, says it cannot be drawn parallels to such a small number.

The journalists' “Ekips went to the principal's office, without the presence of cameras, to request clarification from him, as if he asked that a parallel in Albanian be opened. However, very rudely he sent the journalists away and locked himself in his” office.

Education Minister Arben Ademi says the dictatorship he heads is ready, as soon as the Gazi Baba municipality hands over the documentation and request is needed, immediately granting approval for the opening of the parallel. The school principal's behaviour to journalists' teams, the education minister, deems it to be tolerable and inappropriate for a school principal or teacher.

No one should violate the right of children to follow the teaching in their mother tongue. We've had communication with Gazi Baba's mayor and we've requested that he seriously review this case and hand over the application to the Ministry of Education, ensuring that the Ministry of Education will give consent to that request of parents and to life” said Arber Ademi, minister of education.

Contacted by phone, Gazi Baba Mayor Boris Georgievski, the municipality, which also needs to hand over to the ministry the demand for the opening of the parallel, says it is not informed on this case, so adds that after receiving more detailed information, tomorrow will come out with an attitude /Asat-M.