80 percent of schools in Kyrgyzstan switched to five-day study week
Up to date, 80 percent of schools in
According to him, currently 446 schools study in one shift, 159 more schools — in three shifts. In case of adoption of amendments to the law on education and the transition to a five-day study week, the Ministry of Education is ready to revise the curricula so that the teaching load does not decrease.
MP Rada Tumanbaeva asked if there would be problems with switching to a five-day study week and whether the children would stay unsupervised on Saturdays.
«Teachers also have labor rights. Why do deputies work five days a week, and teachers six? Today we put everything on the school. The school is obliged to feed, teach, educate. We scold a teacher, if he looked at the child in different way. What about parents? They should bring up their child,» the initiator of the bill Dastan Bekeshev said.
He said that if the amendments to the law on education are adopted, the document would come into force on September 1, 2018.
