Armenian-Georgian interschool ties with assistance of RA
Ministry of Diaspora
29-07-2009 17:40:00 | Armenia | Social
YEREVAN, JULY 29, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Yerevan
School N20 after John Kirakosian responded the proposal of
establishing friendly ties with Tbilisi N131 Russian-Armenian
Secondary School presented by the RA Ministry of Diaspora.
Manana Karapetian, the teacher of the History of Armenian Church
of Tbilisi N131 Russian-Armenian Secondary School and the
editor-in-chief of the Zrutsakits (interlocuter) school
newspaper informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent about it.
In her words, the administration of the mentioned school of
Tbilisi addressed to the RA Ministry of Diaspora to get
assistance in the issue of establishing ties with one of schools
of Armenia. It is envisaged that non-Armenian pupils of Tbilisi
School N131 will aslo participate for 10 days in classes of
Yerevan School N20, and the later's pupils will visit the
mentioned school in Tbilisi. Joint cultural programs are also
envisaged.
Touching upon the problems of the Armenian schools in
Georgia, M. Karapetian considered appropriate that exact
sciences and natural sciences are taught in those schools not
translated from Georgian into Armenian, but by Armenian language
text-books used in Armenia as there are mistakes and faults in
the Georgian text-books on the mentioned subjects which are also
repeated in their Armenian translations.
She affirmed that there is need of text-books on the
Armenian Fiction, on the History of Armenian People and Art and,
especially, on the Oratory. The circumstance that Georgian
Armenian pupils compose their ideas at the all-Armenian
olympiads on the Armenian language and literature worse than,
for example, Iranian and Syrian Armenian pupils, is conditioned
by absence of the text-books on the Oratory.
The Georgian Armenian teacher also stated that the
mentioned school in Tbilisi is in the region of the city
populated by Armenians, and 350 from 460 pupils of the school
are Armenians, but only 64 pupils studied at Armenian classes
during the 2008/2009 school year. He conditioned such a
situation with the circumstance that Armenian parents prefer to
give their child to a Russian or Georgian school, considering
that it is not advantageous for a child to leave an Armenian
school from the point of view of entering an institution of
higher education in Georgia and possibilities of finding a job.
That is the reason that Armenian classes of the mentioned school
occupy 45-person classrooms for a class of 4-5 pupils, and the
Russian classes are overloaded what influences on the education
quality. For this reason a small flow of pupils from Russian
classes to Armenian ones has already been noticed during the
recent years. Manana Karapetian mentioned that teaching of the
Georgian language is also on a high level at the Armenian
department of the school, owing to what 4 from 5 school leavers
of 2008 of the Armenian department entered Georgian institutions
of higher education.
She also added that if there were 34 Armenian schools in
Tbilisi in the middle of 1970s, there are only 6 ones at
present.