Is it again us who should save it?
The National Assembly discussed the draft law on making changes in the RA Law on "Language" until 6 p.m. with speeches by oppositional MPs who raised issues regarding the poor state of the public education system.
Independent MP Victor Dallakyan mentioned that the draft law goes against the RA Constitution and noted that it was a draft law on 30 types of silvers or a law on turning Armenians into zombies.
"Heritage" was in favor of private schools, but not at the price of national identity and the Constitution. Nevertheless, it suggested opening interstate schools through the budgets of both governments. Armen Martirosyan did not forget to thank Minister Ashotyan for starting the rather heated discussions on public education with this discussion, as well as for forming a civil society as he pointed to the people gathered outside.
Larisa Alaverdyan said the majority of people gathered outside were Russian-speaking people like her, but "it turns out that it is again us who should save the Armenian language," said the MP.
Among speakers was head of the "Orinats Yerkir" (Country of Law) faction Heghine Bisharyan who was for the draft law and mentioned that the people who are trying to look a little ahead should not be called traitors. The CL representative only suggested reducing the number of schools from 15 to 8 and start teaching foreign languages at least from the 7th grade and not 5th.
ARF representative Artyusha Shahbazyan was forced to say that though he rarely expresses positive views on the first RA government, in this case, they were always protecting the mother language.
A special session was convened at 6:30 p.m
