PROTEST HEARD
Support A1+!Parents of deaf children and their attorney Samvel Mkrtchyan reached their desired outcome yesterday.
The demonstrators, who had gathered in front of the presidential residency and stayed until 9:30 p.m. last night demanding that the decision of the government to not join the number 9 school for deaf students of Zeytun with the deaf and mute students’ school of Nork, met with Deputy Minister of Education and Science Bagrat Yesayan late last night at the Ministry of Education and Science.
“During the discussion with Deputy Minister Bagrat Yesayan we came to the agreement to keep the school’s spot, but turn it into a complex educational facility, which we had foreseen. The educational complex will function in two buildings-one in the Zeytun building and one in the building of the #15 school. “The children studying in the Zeytun school will continue their studies in the same school,” told “A1+” president of the “Community and Rights” NGO Samvel Mkrtchyan.
Mkrtchyan also noted that from now on, they will decide which school the child must study in before enrollment. So, children with 4th degree hearing defects will be enrolled in the #15 school, while children with 1st, 2nd, or 3rd degree hearing defects will study in the #9 school.
