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PUPILS OF SPECIAL SCHOOL STAGE PROTEST ACTION

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The pupils of Yerevan’s special school N9 staged a silent protest action in front of the President’s residence on December 1. The children were accompanied by their parents. The protesters refused to utter a word. Chairman of the “Community and Right” NGO, Advocate Samvel Mkrtchyan presented their demands and concerns. “The government doesn’t allow them to speak up!” he said.


Note that under a government decision the school of hard hearing children must unite with special school N15 for deaf and mute. The parents say their children have an ability to speak, they simply have hearing problems and if the schools are united they will have to use gestures.


“These children cannot get adapted to the new surrounding. They will feel depressed in the new atmosphere,” said Samvel Mkrtchyan.


Over 117 children from different Armenian marzes, as well as from Karabakh, Georgia, Javakhk and Russia, attend School N9.


The demonstrators were promised to be given a chance to pose their demands during an upcoming meeting with the deputy Minister of Education and Science.


“We hope that the problem will be addressed otherwise the parents will go on a termless strike,” ensured Samvel Mkrtchyan.