Teachers hold demonstration in Budapest
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Budapest, June 11 (MTI) – The Tanítanék (I want to teach) movement began a demonstration in Budapest on Saturday afternoon.
The organisers of the movement expressed their anger in an invitation to the demonstration on Facebook over what they see as the government “totally nationalising schools and destroying education”.
The demonstrators will “grade” their own performance as well as the government’s, the movement added.
The demonstrators are marching from a square next to Erzsébet Bridge in Pest over the Danube to the Várkert Bazár, at the foot of the Buda Castle.
They started marching behind a banner on which was written “Let’s send a message to the government so they can understand, too”.
The line of protestors stretched from the starting point, on March 15 Square, across three lanes of the Erzsébet Bridge to the Buda side.
The protestors were joined by teachers unions PSZ and PDSZ.
PSZ chief Piroska Galló and others will give speeches when the demonstrators reach the Várkert Bazár.
Demonstrations are taking place at the same time in the county seats of Békéscsaba, Debrecen, Győr, Miskolc, Nyíregyhaza, Pécs and Szeged.
“Tanitanek” = I would teach
“I want to teach” = Akarok tanitani
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