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    Emil Lazarian
  • 6 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

CIVILNET.End of School Celebration Cancelled for Armenian Students

CIVILNET.AM
18:00 

Armenia’s minister of education has announced there will be no end-of-year celebrations for graduating high school students around the country. Known as the “last ringbell”, the high school commencements have a long tradition in Armenia’.

“If we go ahead big events such as these’, we’ll have a contamination. If young people become infected, they might spread the virus to their family members,” explained the Minister of Education Arayik Harutyunyan.

Harutyunyan presented the details about the end of the 2019-2020 academic year and the organization of the 2020-2021 year during a live broadcast on April 27.

Harutyunyan confirmed that the academic year will end with distance learning.

In the coming academic year, during September and October, there will be additional teaching days to fill in the gaps. There are also discussions about starting the school year a week earlier.

General educational exams will also not be held. 

Since the declaration of the state of emergency in the country on March 16 due to the coronavirus outbreak, public cultural events are prohibited. 

Thus, programs for online education are being designed so that students continue their curriculum despite the situation.
 
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS