Jeopardy Question: Where Did Teachers Take to the Streets to Protest Educational Centralization & Authoritarianism? (It’s Not in America)
From http://hungarianfreepress.com/2016/02/13/twenty-thousand-protest-orbans-education-policies-in-budapest/rom
Hungarian teachers are protesting centralized public education and current one size fits all educational reforms. From Twenty thousand protest Orbán’s education policies in Budapest:
“The government’s great reform brought about a system that stripped students of the joy of learning and stripped teachers of the joy of teaching. The regime is consciously throwing into poverty an entire new generation. Our patience has run dry. We are here, so as to declare together, that enough is enough. We won’t stand idly by,” declared Mrs. István Galló, chief of the PSZ union.
The protest also included speeches from students and school administrators. The principal of the Teleki Blanka High School in Budapest, István Pukli, noted that the regime is “not accustomed to people saying ‘no’” and added that the government had now entered into its most stubborn phase. Mr. Pukli demanded that the regime spend 6% of Hungary’s GDP on education, in order to address the damage that they have done over the past six years.The most radical group involved in the protests is called the Network of the Uninvited. Activists affiliated with this group distributed thousands of flyers on Saturday declaring that there “is no longer any reason to engage in dialogue with government on any issue.” The Network calls upon Hungarians, in all fields and in all regions, to reject all dialogue with the government and its officials, and instead engage in systematic forms of civil disobedience across the country. The Network described Mr. Orbán, his ministers and leading civil servants as “barbarians.”
Many American moms and dads could consider themselves to be in a Network of the Uninvited and would agree that there is no lonJeopardy Question: Where Did Teachers Take to the Streets to Protest Educational Centralization & Authoritarianism? (It’s Not in America) – Missouri Education Watchdog: