The Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment condemned the aggression of schoolchildren against the Crimean Tatar people

Глянько Катерина
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19:30, 11 July
The Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment condemned the aggression of schoolchildren against the Crimean Tatar people
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The Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment (UCEQA) strongly condemned the obscene remarks of graduates of one of Kyiv's schools about Crimean Tatars and the recognition of the occupied peninsula as part of Russia.

This was reported by UCEQA.

"It is especially unfortunate that the participants in the external evaluation present in the video blasphemously address the Crimean Tatar people and allow themselves emotional cries that deny the territorial integrity of Ukraine", - the statement said.

The Ukrainian Center urges graduates who call themselves indifferent and socially active citizens in their posts to "carefully read the EIT programs, carefully prepare for the test, work on their own level of critical thinking and at least after such an unfortunate incident have the strength to recognize that the task is correct, and their aggression - unfounded".

After passing the EIT on the history of Ukraine on July 9, graduates of Kyiv school №90 recorded and posted on social media a video expressing dissatisfaction with task № 25, which aims to test knowledge about events and personalities related to the Crimean Tatar people.

The center noted that acquaintance with Crimean Tatar personalities and concepts is a mandatory component of preparation for the external evaluation. Tasks related to the history of the Crimean Tatar people correspond to the current program and are constantly included in certification works on the history of Ukraine.

UCEQA stressed that the requirements of the current External Evaluation Program on the History of Ukraine, approved by the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated June 26, 2018, provide knowledge of the following personalities related to the history of the Crimean Tatar people: Ismail Gasprinsky, Noman Chelebidzhihan, Amet-Khan Sultan, Petro Grigorenko, Mustafa Dzhemilev.

Among the elements of the content in the Program are the concepts of "Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people (June 1991)", "Return of the Crimean Tatars to their homeland", "Status of Crimea", "Russia's annexation of Crimea".

On July 10, Kyiv School №90 apologized for the words of the students and assured that the position of the school staff, as well as the entire Ukrainian state, is unchanged: Crimea is Ukraine. The school administration noted that this situation revealed the need to teach children more thoroughly the history of Ukraine and its indigenous peoples, as well as tolerance.

"We apologize to the entire Crimean Tatar people, the indigenous people of Ukraine, for the insult to honor and dignity contained in the published video of our graduate. We fully share the outrage at the manifestation of discrimination on the basis of nationality, we understand the inadmissibility of such shameful statements in anyone's direction", - the statement reads.

 

On the same day, the head of the Crimean Tatar People's Majlis, Refat Chubarov, reacted to the situation on Facebook. He called on all Crimean Tatars who felt offended to be satisfied with the response of the school administration.

He also invited graduates who committed an offensive attack on Crimean Tatars, but then found the strength to apologize, to the office of the Mejlis, "where each of them personally personally world-renowned human rights activist, Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev will present books on the history of Crimea and Crimean Tatars".

At the end of the appeal, he stated that the incident was over.

The author of the video deleted it, but Girey Batalov posted the posts on his Facebook page on July 9.

 

He also released screenshots of messages where students participating in the video apologize.