Bajramovska-Mustafa: Many children still do not have textbooks, Carovska to hire inspectors
The State Adviser in the Office of the Ombudsman, Vaska Bajramovska-Mustafa, in tonight's debate on "360 degrees" on Alsat TV said that they receive daily complaints from parents of school-age children, but also from non-governmental organizations, that more than two weeks from the beginning of the school year, there is still a shortage of textbooks.
"We have complaints with the Ombudsman submitted by parents and we receive telephone reactions every day. many of the schools in the country have not yet provided the textbooks. Many students go to school without a textbook. The Law on Textbooks for Primary and Secondary Education is clear that the textbook is a basic teaching tool and at the beginning of the school year students receive the textbooks. However, unfortunately, not every child left school after the first day of school with the necessary textbooks to attend classes, "said Bajramovska-Mustafa and asked the Minister Mila Carovska to engage the inspection services on this issue.
Carovska, for her part, says that this year for the first time the number of textbooks requested by the schools were delivered on time on September 1.
"This year, everything was on time and the textbooks were released from schools for purchase and printing on September 1, ie the number of textbooks requested by the schools. Maybe it is about individual subjects, which do not have a textbook and they will not get it because there are withdrawn textbooks and it is a system that has worked for years with poor quality and the textbooks were not delivered on time or with the appropriate number, and we have insight in MES that it has been printed for years at full potential or with the total required circulation of textbooks, and now the schools at some point are alarmed that they do not have a sufficient number of textbooks. For example, the textbooks for third grade are not printed every year and that is in the legal solution, the number of required textbooks requested by the schools to the Ministry of Education and Science is printed ", said Carovska.