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HIGH-RANKING PARENTS BESIEGE EDUCATION MINISTER WITH CALLS RE: 12TH GRADE ATTENDANCE
Grisha Balasanyan
hetq
15:05, October 23, 2012
Armenia's Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan told
reporters today that his phone was besieged with calls from
high-ranking parents of 12th graders last year after he issued a
warning to ten school principals about pupils not attending classes
but being marked as present.
At issue is the fact that many seniors skip regular classes in order
to attend private tutoring lessons for college entrance exams.
The parents had called the minister with the request that their
children be officially excused from attending classes.
Minister Ashotyan noted that when he declared that all 12th graders
must regularly attend class, many parents pulled their children out
of Yerevan schools and registered them at village schools where the
attendance rules could be circumvented more easily.
Grisha Balasanyan
hetq
15:05, October 23, 2012
Armenia's Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan told
reporters today that his phone was besieged with calls from
high-ranking parents of 12th graders last year after he issued a
warning to ten school principals about pupils not attending classes
but being marked as present.
At issue is the fact that many seniors skip regular classes in order
to attend private tutoring lessons for college entrance exams.
The parents had called the minister with the request that their
children be officially excused from attending classes.
Minister Ashotyan noted that when he declared that all 12th graders
must regularly attend class, many parents pulled their children out
of Yerevan schools and registered them at village schools where the
attendance rules could be circumvented more easily.