The law stipulates that if a student refuses to learn the Russian language by June 21 of this year, he will be able to learn another foreign language from the new school year.
4th-8th grade students who have given up on learning the Russian language this school year will be able to be transferred to the next grade without evaluation in the subject of the second foreign language. On the other hand, for those who will finish the 9th grade this year, the grade obtained from the average grade obtained in this subject in the previous school years will be indicated in the primary education transcript.
During the debate, there was a desire to abandon Russian as a second foreign language also in the secondary school stage, in the 10th and 11th grades, but this was rejected by the parliament.
Opposition MP Ilze Indriksone (NA) said that her proposal “is not just formal”, because a situation may arise where young people in the 8th and 9th grades will give up the Russian language, but in high school, when submitting documents in the 10th grade, they will have to learn Russian language, because the law does not provide for abandoning the Russian language in secondary school.
Deputy Česlavs Batņa (AS) called not to mix politics with the learning process. According to him, it is necessary to allow young people who want to learn Russian at the secondary school level.
