Ukrainian school principal to abolish rights of Hungarians: Hungarian language to be eliminated
In Ukraine, the new headmaster of a Transcarpathian secondary school wants to abolish the Hungarian language and take steps to Ukrainianise education.
New principal against Hungarians
The Ferenc Rákóczi II Secondary School in Transcarpathia has just changed its headmaster. The new headmistress, Marija Pauk, is taking measures to gradually eliminate the Hungarian language and teachers and to make education more lifelong.
The former director, István Schink, was dismissed overnight at the beginning of 2023 without explanation, index.hu reports. The chair of the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transcarpathia (KMKSZ) protested in a statement that the city council had appointed a director with no ties to either the Hungarian community or the school.
Krisztián Molnár, a teacher at the school, said that the headmaster was replaced overnight. In connection with the Ukrainian language law, Krisztián Molnár said at the time that it was possible that he would have to teach his students in Ukrainian next year. The appointment of a new headmaster could be part of the restructuring of the Hungarian school.
Hungarian education banned
The Ferenc Rákóczi II Secondary School reported in a Facebook post published on Thursday that the new principal is indeed working to undermine Hungarian education.
“At our trade union meeting, the appointed director and her deputy indicated that their short-term goal is to Ukrainianise the school, to teach Hungarian as a foreign language, to start a Ukrainian first class from September, and to teach some of the subjects in Ukrainian,” the Facebook post reads.
The post describes that through the strong protest and united stand of their teaching staff, they have managed to ensure that for the time being no Ukrainian-language class will start and the language of instruction will remain Hungarian, but it is now clear that “the city administration’s plan is to end Hungarian education in our school as soon as possible”.
Mandiner.hu notes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Katalin Novak that what the members of the Ukrainian minority in Hungary receive, they will give to the members of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.
How many Ukranians are hiding in Hungary today . I question this because of the news to eliminate the oldest language being Hungarian . STAND STRONG HUNGARY ,YOU ARE THE BEST ,KEEP PROTECTING THE CULTURE AND THE CHILDREN AT ALL COSTS . NO WEAPON FORMED AGINST YOU WILL EVER PROSPER .
The area called Transcarpathia was annexed from Hungary after WWII and attached to Ukraine SSR. Such Nazi tactics only hightens tensions between the cultures. Hopefully, Ukraine will soon be dismantled peacefully and by culture.
And after all of that the EU continues to support the regime in Ukraine. Wonderful.
Hungarian perspective on that regard is more than clear and logical. We are against the war, we’ll take care of refugees, but we won’t support that regime.
Sorry Hungary, no one in the world cares at all about your constant whining for your god-king Orban! Want to be educated in Hungarian? Move to Hungary, we’d ALL be much happier!