A protest demonstration will be held this afternoon (16.00) outside the Presidential Palace protesting against the expansion of the Compulsory Pre-Primary Education.
According to the educational organization, despite the fact that it is a firm position of the PDOED to extend the age of admission to pre-primary education downwards from the age of four, it nevertheless strongly disagrees "with the incomplete and incorrect plans submitted by the Government to Parliament for the implementation of the above policy".
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Therefore, POED is appealing to the President of the Republic to intervene to review the above plans to ensure the proper implementation of the expansion of Compulsory Pre-primary Education from the age of four through the Public School structures.
At the same time, it appeals to Parliamentary Parties and MPs to proceed to amend the proposed legislation, thus ensuring the right of access of every child of compulsory pre-primary age to the Public Kindergarten of his/her neighbourhood.
The event will include a gathering of teachers, statements on behalf of the three Education Organizations and the Organized Parents of Pre-primary Education and presentation of a resolution to the President of the Republic.
PEO supports the mobilisation
The mobilisation of the PDOED is also supported by the PEO, which states in a statement that "the reduction of the year of admission to compulsory pre-primary education is a measure that will have educational and social benefits", expresses, however, its disagreement with the way the government intends to extend pre-primary education.
"The measure to extend compulsory free pre-primary education from the age of 4 should be implemented through public education structures and not through procedures that promote the privatisation of education, providing equal universal access to all children of this age," the PEA notes.
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