The Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) considers the stigmatization of church schools, the children who attend them, their parents, and the teachers there to be unacceptable.
Csaba Latorcai, the KDNP’s executive vice president, wrote on his Facebook page Thursday:
Church schools build communities, impart values, and provide hundreds of thousands of children with knowledge, faith, and a solid foundation for life.”
As previously reported by Hungary Today, Minister for Children and Education Judit Lannert said in an interview with Qubit that church schools can only survive in their current form if they admit Roma children alongside non-Roma students in the future. The KDNP politician called the new education minister’s views concerning, noting that the statement reveals that, according to the TISZA government, institutions where hundreds of thousands of Hungarian children currently study must prove their right to exist and meet certain centrally defined expectations.
All of this is based on the false accusation that church schools practice segregation. This is simply not true,”
he stated.
He emphasized that church schools do not operate in Hungary out of political favor. “They have served Hungarian public education for centuries, and tens of thousands of parents entrust their children to them,” Csaba Latorcai noted.
Via MTI; Featured photo: Pixabay
