Dili - JND (25/1) Members Parliament from FRETILIN party and Democratic Party (PD) urged the Minister of Education to stop the pilot project of implementing mother tongue in primary schools in 3 districts of Timor Leste because it threatens national unity.
“I think at the last mandate, the minister of education should not create another laboratory for several pilot projects. The Ministry has to focus on implementing its own plan. He should not be a minister who implements the project of international groups like UNESCO,” said MP Joaquim Amaral during a plenary session at the Parliament on Tuesday (24/1). MP Amaral also questions about the end of the pilot project because so far it not effective and it has no continuation at the higher studies.
MP Ilda Maria da COnceição added that “it is lamentable because we are about to divide our people and create clanism in our country.” MP Getrudis Moniz from PD asked the ministry to present success countries implementing the project before actually applying the project here in Timor Leste.
Otherwise, the government has to urgently implement the Resolution number 32 issued in September 2007 on teaching Portuguese language to elementary schools in the country.
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