At least this is what András Fekete-Győr, the prime ministerial candidate of Momentum, claimed, who took part in the debate forum 1 Hungary Initiative, where he talked with Roma leaders about the most important issues affecting the Roma community. The politician said that there are too many schools in Hungary, and that the high schools in small towns should be closed.
"We need to create schools where there is no shortage of teachers. I think there are currently too many schools in Hungary and too few teachers," said the president of Momentum.
In the database of the Central Statistical Office, we did not find a table that shows how many elementary schools in small settlements operate in Hungary, but a series of data from last year shows that there are about 800 state-maintained elementary schools with fewer than a hundred students.
Among them are institutions located in Budapest and other larger cities, but most of them operate in small settlements. One can imagine what it would mean for the number of students and the sustainability of the given institution if the seniors were directed overnight to larger settlements.
Therefore, the sentences of the president of Momentum cannot be interpreted other than as school closures. At the same time, Fekete-Győr admitted in his next sentence that in terms of teacher shortage, our country is not worse than the European average, and there are even some areas where we perform better:
"By the way, in a European comparison, there are not much fewer teachers in Hungary than elsewhere, so there are more teachers for every ten children here than, say, in the Danes or the French."
For this reason alone, the thinking process of the president of Momentum is incomprehensible, but he even managed to add to this when he added: "We have an immeasurable number of schools and the quality of them is very poor" therefore, according to him, "the village school should keep its lower grades", but the upper grades it should be transferred to district centers where there is no shortage of teachers.
Momentum's candidate for prime minister is clearly not on top of the situation on the subject, as he hits one sentence after the other, but knowing the educational reforms of the left, Fekete-Győr announces school closings in flowery language when he talks about "too many" schools in our country.
The amalgamation of schools and the various lower and upper grades always involved closures: between 2006 and 2009, the governments of Gyurcsány and Bajnai closed nearly a thousand schools, with similar reasons.
Source: Híradó.hu
