“Teachers’ plenum” strongly condemns the posters placed in several cities with insults and names of students who have been active in high school protests.
“In the past few days in several cities in Macedonia – Skopje, Kumanovo, Bitola – appeared posters with insulting content and with names of students who were active during the events associated with the high school protests, organized on the occasion of the introduction of mathematics as a compulsory subject while taking state graduation. With disgust and indignation, “Teachers’ plenum” reacts sharply because of this blatant violation of the rights of free expression of students, and all the more reason is that children are exposed to unacceptable public labeling and stigmatization as “brains” of the operation in which, at their free will and with sound arguments, huge mass of high school students in several cities of the country included,” reads the statement of “Teachers’ plenum”.
“Teachers’ plenum” is calling on urgent reaction of competent institutions, from which they expect to come out with a public condemnation of this act.
“The reaction of “Teachers’ plenum “is justifiable and with concern arising from the fact that these posters, distributed through schools and glued on the windows and the poles in several cities across the country, basically, are a hate speech and it is our duty, and the duty of competent authorities as well, to protect children from the actions that exposed them to public labeling and to condemn it,” say representatives of “Teachers’ plenum”.
