/ world today news/ BSP LEFT BULGARIA PG deputies Valeri Zhablyanov and Stoyan Mirchev criticized the government’s proposal for school autonomy. “The proposal submitted by BSP LEFT BULGARIA envisages changing the concept of autonomy for schools with the concept of self-governance“, explained Zablyanov.
According to him, autonomy is a mode of functioning in higher schools, it includes a different way of management, including forms of financing and determining the curricula.
“What the law aims at – to give flexibility to educational institutions, to have the opportunity to take into account the peculiarities of the training process, is completely in line with the principle of self-governance,” the deputy also said.
He was adamant that introducing autonomy into secondary education would lead to difficulties. However, the rulers rejected the proposal of the left.
According to Mirchev, the problem with autonomy is that different teachers define different topics as important to teach, and through this autonomy, in practice, they can not teach what is considered less important. According to him, subsequently, children appearing for exams must know all the topics, and they will not have learned them.
“At a time when the state is facing a demographic catastrophe, we must bet on children’s education, and the state, through this autonomy, cannot implement a unified state policy”, explained Mirchev.
He added that in small settlements, where there are generally not enough teachers, there may not be the capacity to prepare these independent study plans. “In this way, students’ equal access to education is hindered. This is a form of discrimination”, the socialist was categorical.
He quotes US President Barack Obama, who states that when public funding is also given to private schools, children from the middle and poorer strata of society are more uneducated (in Bulgaria, 70% of families find it difficult to meet their daily expenses ).
“These children up to the age of 3 hear 30,000,000 words less than the children of elite families, which in Bulgaria are less than 10%”, continued Mirchev. He addressed the rulers: “You are trying to make a neoliberal law, but you see that in the cradle of neoliberalism they refuse such a policy. The division in society will increase.”
Stoyan Mirchev stated that the rulers are taking us back to the 19th century, when education was only available to a select group of people with high financial capabilities.
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