I would like to mention that I don’t think there may be more serious violations as in our school on the behalf of local authorities in the world. In regard to the child’s rights, if a child wants to write using Latin alphabet, I think he has the right to do this, but through the controls from the local authorities it is absolutely impossible to realize this.
I would like to give some examples that have happened lately in our school. On the 15th of February, out of some certain motives, I missed my first class. Then the chief of the district department came with a group of workers to perform a control in the school. She entered my classroom where there were the chief of the department and two parents who came with some school problems. Entering the classroom she didn’t even bother to greet them, she handled them roughly and threw them out of the room. When one of the parents reproached her that he has every right to come and see what are the successes of their children, the lady threatened the mother of the child saying she might loose her job.
She remained with the children who were writing a composition on the topic “The last month of winter” and seeing that the children are writing with Latin alphabet she began asking them questions about the reason they are using Latin alphabet and took the notebook of one of the girls. After the lesson a protocol on me has been written saying that I was the one to be blamed that the children are taught to write like that. She took five notebooks from the children that had been sent to the prosecutor’s office. Several days after I have been cited to the prosecutor’s office in Grigoriopol, where I have been told that I violate the law and I have been reproached that I use the ten points system of assessing the children’s knowledge and that I allow them to write like this. It is not normal since there is a law which says that everybody has the right to write the way he or she wants, let’s respect the law. After that those notebooks have been sent to police where I have been invited again, even the policeman came and took from home.
There they told me that they made a record on me. They said they agreed with me but still we have to respect the law. They proposed me to write an explanation on why the children were writing like that. I told them to call the parents that have been present, because I have already written an explanation on why I was missing and they told me they will not allow me leave the room until I write it. I asked them if I was being arrested and they said I wasn’t but they had the right to keep me there for three hours. I said I would write an explanation in my language, they said it would be preferable to write in Russian. I said if they want an explanation in Russian I would bring it the next morning, because I needed time to write it in Russian.
Finally they allowed me to do that and I left for home, I wrote an explanation. They made me write if the petitions have really been written by the parents, and told them that there are 21 petitions and they really have been written by the parents. They asked why they were at the parents and not with me and I said that the children were theirs and they decide what to do. With this they closed the record because they had no enough proofs to accuse me of something. To the question why we were not allowed to use school books in Latin alphabet since books in Cyrillic are lacking they said it was absolutely impossible to allow us work with books in Latin alphabet and they brought us the list from the District Department where we saw that only the book of science may be taken to be used from the Republic of Moldova, because this book hasn’t been published in any alphabet. Other manuals are strictly forbidden! It is very difficult to work and we live with the hope that the problem of violating the child’s rights will be solved. We, as teachers, sometimes close our eyes to some things that are happening outside, but the hope is the last to die and we have to hope.
M.S. Has been discussed: about violation of human rights; the lack of access to information in Romanian language; violation of child’s rights.
D.C. Has been discussed: about violation of child’s rights, about the lack of the access to information.
E.C. Has been discussed: about violation of child’s rights.
M.S. Has been discussed: about violation of human rights.
S.J. Has been discussed: about violation of human and child rights.