Caretaker Education Minister Yet to Decide How New School Year Will Start - Remotely or in Person
At the end of August, it will be clear how the new school year will start - remotely or in person, the caretaker Minister of Education Prof.
Students with Christian crosses or girls with Muslim scarves will no longer be allowed in Bulgarian public schools.
The mandate is included in the project for the new Public Education Act.
The Act includes a clause declaring that Bulgarian schools are secular and students cannot display symbols, which aggressively and visibly demonstrate their religious beliefs.
The Act is yet to be discussed by the Cabinet.
After the scandal involving the school in the village of Ribnovo over allegations that teachers there promote fundamentalist Islam, Bulgaria's Education Minister, Daniel Vulchev, commented that the number of children in Bulgaria studying Islam, as a required or elective subject, was very low. Vulchev voiced his opinion that the schools are not a place to teach religion, especially when the country is facing Parliamentary elections.
Vulchev further said that he had received numerous signals about extremist Islam being taught at many Bulgarian schools, not only in Ribnovo.
The Head of the Education Department at the Chief Mufti, Husein Karamola, informed that 4,000 students in 44 villages, towns and cities all over Bulgaria are enrolled in Islam classes during the 2008-2009 school year.
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