Harsh opinion: “What a Russian to respect [..] Latvian, if he is shy to speak his own language in his own country?!”

What country, what nation has self-confidence if it forces its children to learn the occupier’s language for 34 years?! Forgive me! That’s how Ojars Jansons, photographer, pedagogue, began his harsh opinion on this very topical issue in the TV24 program “Press Club”.

Most read

PHOTO. See which car was the most popular in the year you were born!

TEST: answer 10 simple questions and we’ll tell you how educated you are!

TV24

Bricklayer: “There are psychological operations against our population. There is an attempt to manipulate and create a sense of insecurity”

Read other posts

He says: “If I were a Russian, then what about you, shit respect a Latvian, if you are shy to speak your language even in your own country!? Why respect you!?”

The photographer believes that such a person is not worthy in the eyes of the Russians, nor in the eyes of the French, in the eyes of anyone, he is a dishonorable scum who should be treated that way and that’s how he should be treated!” Such a harsh, unpopular opinion was publicly expressed by Jansons.

There is no consensus in the Saeima commission on abandoning Russian as a second foreign language at the secondary school stage

There is no consensus in the Education, Culture and Science Commission of the Saeima about abandoning Russian as a second foreign language at the secondary school stage. Members of the Saeima commission deliberated on the received proposals for amendments to the Education Law before the third or final reading in the Saeima. The proposals supported so far provide for the possibility of waiving Russian language learning for elementary school students.

High school students can learn Russian as a second foreign language in optimal level, advanced level or specialized courses. According to the data available to the Ministry of Education and Science (IZM), 205 out of 280 educational institutions with 10th and 11th grades teach the Russian language at various levels. In the optimal level course, students mostly continue to learn the foreign language they started learning in primary education.

The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Silvija Reinberga (JV), called for the regulation of the primary education phase to be sorted out first, and then to focus on a systematic transition in the secondary education phase, including professional education. As a possible compromise, the Ministry sees the possibility of giving up the Russian language as a second foreign language in the optimal level course, without affecting advanced courses.

Themes