The vice mayor of Vilnius is caught in conferences with dad and mom of scholars: they accuse him of disrespect and discrimination

Arūnas Šileris, who enthusiastically took up his duties and have become the fourth deputy mayor of Vilnius on the finish of October, has been compelled to elucidate his choices for a while now.

The targets raised questions

The primary wave of discontent arose after the record of duties for college principals accredited by the vice mayor reached the faculties. It outlined targets for faculties of nationwide minorities – extra Lithuanian language classes, separate lessons within the Lithuanian language of instruction with native language instructing, and so forth.

Then the query arises that the targets could also be good, everybody actually must know the Lithuanian language in addition to potential, however find out how to implement these targets and what’s going to occur to these managers who don’t implement them?

Extra – Non-Lithuanian faculties in Vilnius have targets for the Lithuanian language: extra classes and even separate lessons.

At the moment, A.Šileris assured on the council assembly that he obtained messages of approval from the heads of Vilnius faculties for these targets, and that it will not be troublesome to implement them if the principals have been benevolent and artistic.

Dissatisfaction – in a grievance to the mayor

Nevertheless, the conferences with the college communities which have began usually are not going as easily because the vice-mayor would love. A minimum of a few of the representatives of these communities don’t conceal their indignation each at A. Šiler’s ideas for faculties and on the method of communication.

Such suggestions unfold after the vice mayor’s go to to the Pavilni main faculty, the place training is performed in Polish and Russian. The group of one other faculty in Vilnius, the place youngsters additionally research in Russian and Polish, reacted much more harshly.

The members of the council of the Antakalnis main faculty expressed their dissatisfaction in a grievance to the mayor of Vilnius, Valdas Benkunskas.

On January 25, Vice Mayor A. Šileris visited this small faculty, which was based in 2020 already after the J. Lelevelis secondary faculty, which was working right here, was moved from Antakalnis after many disagreements, the place training was additionally performed in each Polish and Russian languages.

Skirmantas Lisauskas/BNS picture/Arūnas Šileris

In keeping with faculty board members, he got here right here after two academic conferences mentioned their faculty and made choices that the group didn’t help.