In Crimea, pupils’ parents are forced to sign a refusal to study in the Crimean Tatar language at school

In the occupied Crimea, teachers at the Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution Verkhorichenska Secondary School of the Bakhchysarai District give parents a completed application form, where Russian is mentioned instead of the native language. Activist Elmaz Qırımlı reports this on her Facebook page.

“In Crimean schools, it is no longer just insistently persuading parents to write a refusal to teach their children in their native Crimean Tatar or Ukrainian. The language of instruction is already mentioned as solely Russian. That is, there is no choice, even though the list includes the Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages. But this is an illusion of choice. After all, everything has already been written for the parents”,- the message said.

We remind you that earlier there was a case when the leadership of the Simferopol school No. 8 held conversations with the parents of students and forced them to abandon the study of the Crimean Tatar language.