There is no oxygen to breathe: School Principal talks aboutprotest action (video)
Grisha Gevorgyan, director of the school named after Vardges Petrosyan in Ashtarak, told "A1 +" that this school has problems almost for 10 years. According to him, their small school is normal for 9 classes, with 180 students. “But when the neighboring school became a high school, the pupils of lower classes of the nearby school came to our school. As a result, the number of students in our school has increased by 50-60 each year. Now we have 21 classes and 601 pupils. This year we have opened two first-grade classes, with 38 students, due to the lack of space. Even though we have sent open letters to all the relevant bodies, no steps have been taken yet. " Thus, the council of school’s parents decided to hold a protest action demanding a major renovation of the school, and an elementary school to immediately move to a nearby high school’s free building. According to Grisha Gevorgyan, their voice only reached the governor of Aragatsotn Ashot Simonyan. “The governor came to school on August 31 and promised to deal with this problem. But 26 days have passed, and nothing has been done.” According to the director of the school, everything possible has become a class. "Even we turned the small hall into a class. There is no oxygen to breathe in the school and no way to move, especially during the break times. To conclude, the constitutional right to education is violated. " At present, the head of the Education Department of the Marzpetaran and Ashot Arshakyan, the Head of Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Science, are examining the situation in the nearby high school and promised to visit Vardges Petrosyan's main school too.
