Statement from the HNDS

Ark News… Students of different educational levels in the areas of influence of the PYD Administration in northern and eastern Syria and their families are still suffering from the consequences of the education authority’s decision that imposed on them to study according to its curriculum that was approved and adopted without following the required constitutional procedures as a result of the situation Syria is going through and punishing those who violate this, although it was unable to obtain the official recognition of its certificates from the concerned international organizations, especially UNESCO, which still recognizes the official education of the Syrian state to the extent that it severely harmed them, taking into account the damages that the students of Afrin, Gire Spi and Sari Kaniye had previously suffered from about the control of the PYD Administration and the instability of the political situation in the entire region as a result of the crisis that is still plaguing Syria and its people.

Whereas the students ’academic future is the ultimate and paramount goal in any educational process to the extent that it puts everyone, including the PYD Administration, in front of their historical responsibility that requires them to review the subject in all its aspects, and reconsidering the decisions issued in it and respecting the will of students and their families to choose the curriculum they want to study, and as the relevant authorities at the PYD Administration still prevent teachers - who confronted the teaching of the official curriculum based on the parents 'desire - from teaching students and confiscate the students' will to choose the curriculum that suits them in addition to the approaching date of the official examinations to the extent that prompted us to direct this statement, we ask that teachers not be subjected to and allow them to practice their profession, teach middle and high school diploma students, and respect the will of students and their families until the end of the political process in Syria at the risk of holding you fully legally and morally responsible for damages, that will catch up with them.

The Human Rights Committee for the National Democratic Meeting in Syria(HNDS)
2/3/2012

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