Both schools need buildings
Is there any country or government in the world that does not attach importance to education?
Okay!
Is there any state where the defence budget is smaller than the education budget?
It's a possibility!
We don't know about that, but what we do know is that there is a country that specialises in increasing the problems of education, instead of solving them, and even in shifting the responsibility to others... Don't get tired... This country, our homeland Greece!
Ask any student, any teacher, any professor, any university student the following question:
"Are you satisfied with the education you receive at your school?"
Believe me, most of them will say we are not satisfied.
Ask university students: Are you satisfied with university education? The most likely answer will be "NO".
There has never been a problem of university education in our country and there should not be now!
When will the education system, which has been turned into a tangled mess with constant changes in primary and secondary education, be put in order? Will it be able to?
The reason for this is neither the students nor most of the teachers. The parents of the students are not the cause at all.
The only ones responsible for this complexity, this ball of problems, are the elected or appointed officials responsible for education.
The building problem of the Xanthi Minority Secondary School and High School has existed since when? Since the day it was founded.
Until now, we have heard many people saying that they will produce solutions. Has anyone put their hands under the stone and produced a solution? Unfortunately.
Didn't the Xanthi Minority High School organise a boycott for the school building just a few months ago? Didn't the school remain closed for two weeks? Yes, it was. And the result?
The authorities have become so skilful that they continue to use verbiage that almost implies that those who boycott and those who demand a solution to the problem are to blame.
Now two schools in Xanthi have building problems.
One is the Xanthi Minority Secondary School and High School and the other is the Music School. The music school also wants a building, the Minority High School also demands a building.
On the one hand, they defend that "preference" is a democratic right, on the other hand, they carry out a smear campaign saying "minority schools are not good schools, there are no proper buildings there, there is no proper education".
If it is a "RIGHT" to demand, the Turks of Xanthi demand a new education building suitable for the age, where all students can be accommodated. The music school students are the same.
Let us repeat. If demanding is a "RIGHT", it is the "DUTY" of the government and the authorities to fulfil their duty to eliminate this injustice, this injustice.
We also invite the authorities "ON TASK" to solve the building problems of both the Minority High School and the Music School.
Although everyone does his/her part, problems can be solved only if everyone does his/her DUTY properly.
As Western Thrace Turks, we demand SOLUTION, not PROBLEM!
Let me remind you:
The Greek Minister of Education, Religion and Sport, Mr. Pierrakakis, paid a working visit to Istanbul to learn about the situation of the schools of the Greek Orthodox minority and to discuss the problems faced by Greek-language education and the most appropriate solutions for their improvement. How nice! Of course he should realise it. He should seek the rights of his kinsmen.
However, it should not be forgotten that we also have rights and the guarantor is the Republic of Turkey, the Motherland, which signed the Lausanne Treaty for us. Therefore, it is also our "RIGHT" to expect Yusuf Tekin, the Minister of National Education of the Republic of Türkiye, to pay a working visit to Western Thrace to examine the Turkish Minority schools in order to obtain information about the situation of the Turkish Minority schools in Western Thrace and to discuss the problems faced by Turkish education and the most appropriate solutions for their improvement.
