An informal group of citizens united via Facebook with the initiative “Textbooks and mandatory classes” today in front of the Ministry of Education and Science demanded to stop the procedure for adopting the law on textbooks and teaching materials in primary and secondary education and announced a boycott of classes starting Thursday.
The initiators asked the Ministry to organize a public debate on the proposed law, and their experts to directly participate in its revision and interventions. According to them, the bill does not solve the problems that exist in education and generates new ones, there are inconsistencies and implications in other laws related to education in the country.
The law is not in the interest of the future of children, their physical and mental health, the development of their potential, and will directly affect the health of parents, teachers and others involved in the educational process, said Dragana Spasevska, who said that she is a teacher from Bitola and a mother of three, and the Facebook group has over 70,000 followers.
