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Hungarian teachers’ organizations in the Carpathian Basin have published a statement saying that they find it unacceptable that since 2014, Ukraine has been continuously passing laws that gradually take away the rights of the Hungarian minority and make it impossible to use their mother tongue in education.
The organizations that signed the resolution said that they condemn the obvious intention to destroy the Hungarian school system in Ukraine.
As an indigenous minority, we Hungarians want to create a home and a future for the generations to come, actively contributing to the elimination of mistrust between minority and majority communities. This requires a solidly based education system in the mother tongue in Ukraine and the entire Carpathian Basin,”
they stressed.
They explained that the new Ukrainian education law allows full minority mother tongue education only at the elementary level, and provides for a gradual reduction in the number of lessons in native languages from primary school onwards, and an increase in the number of Ukrainian-language classes.
The Hungarian teachers’ organizations in the Carpathian Basin strongly condemn this disenfranchisement, and unanimously support the declaration issued by the Transcarpathian Hungarian Pedagogical Association at the opening ceremony of the 2023-2024 school year. The document calls on the competent state bodies to do their utmost to ensure equal access to education, in line with Ukraine’s Euro-integration efforts, they stressed.
They call for minority education to be provided at all levels, for the necessary funding and an independent institutional system, and for participation in decision-making on education.
The document was signed by the Central Alliance of Hungarian Associations and Organizations in Austria, the Association of Pedagogues of North-Backa, the Forum of Hungarian Pedagogues in Croatia, the Association of Pedagogues in Muravian, the Hungarian Teacher’s Association of Romania, the Association of Hungarian Teachers in Slovakia, the Association of Hungarian Pedagogues of Vojvodina, and the Education Council in the Carpathian Basin.
Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/Kárpátaljai Magyar Pedagógusszövetség