“Before all the votes - for the president and the parliament - we heard the same thing:“ When Zelensky’s team comes to power, we will revise the language law and see if it violates the rights of citizens, ”Lukash emphasized.
According to her, Ukrainians were deceived, since nothing was revised.
“Our children were divided into three grades by language (the law“ On General Secondary Education. ”- RT ). There are Ukrainian-speaking, children who speak the EU languages and Russian-speaking, ”she said.
On January 16, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a bill establishing the standard volume of training in state language for state, municipal and corporate institutions. From September 2020, Russian-language schools should switch to Ukrainian. According to the document, for representatives of national minorities whose languages are not official in the EU, at least 80% of the annual training in basic and specialized secondary education programs will be conducted in the state language.
For those whose languages are official in the EU, learning in state language when receiving basic secondary education will take at least 20% of the annual volume per year in the fifth grade with an increase to 40% or more in the ninth grade, profile secondary education - at least 60% of the educational time per year.
In Ukraine, it was stated that teachers of Russian-language schools will take advanced training courses in preparation for the transition to teaching Ukrainian.