Samananca residents against reorganization of local school

Parents, teachers and children from Samananca village of Orhei district do not want the local secondary school to be reorganized, as the Eduction Ministry recommended. If the institution is closed, the students will have to travel to another school that is located 15 kilometers away, while the teachers will be laid off, said the village's mayor Ioana Goriuc, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. The issue was discussed in a meeting of the parliamentary commission for culture, education, mass media, youth and sport. Mayor Ioana Goriuc was invited to the meeting by the MPs of the Communist group. Lawmaker Ina Supac said they repeatedly asked that the education minister report on the way the rural schools are optimized, but the parliamentary majority rejected their proposal. “We received petitions from parents and teachers, who ask not closing the schools as the teachers will be made redundant and the children will have to go to schools that are many kilometers away,” said the lawmaker. According to Ina Supac, dozens of schools are closed in Calarasi, Cimislia, Nisporeni, Rascani, Drochia, Sangerei, Floresti and other districts. “The schools are closed, the children suffer, and the teachers are laid off under a project. The Ministry of Education is a Ministry of the idiots,” said MP Alexandru Petcov. Deputy Minister of Education Tatiana Potang replied that most of the mentioned schools were closed while the Communists were in power. “The schools were closed in 2007-2009, while the optimization project was agreed by the World Bank and the Ministry of Education in 2007,” she said. As to the school in Samananca, the deputy minister said that the recombination to reorganize it was made after specialists of the Ministry visited the school. The school is in a deplorable condition. It does not have a library, a canteen and a gymnasium and has only four classrooms. There are by only 6-7 children in the first-fourth grades. The Cahul District Council is to return to the issue and take a decision.