SCHOOL UNIFORM WITHOUT UNANIMITY

Panorama.am talked to Education Department Deputy Head of Yerevan Municipality Armine Vardanyan on calls made on “collection of money on a voluntary basis” in relation to school uniforms.

“No uniform,” Vardanyan stressed underscoring that this instruction has been made by the Department of Education.

“A decision in regards to uniforms has not been taken by any educational institution. All these may be considered the result of voluntarism of parents and school principals,” the deputy head of the education department assured.
Even that there is no decision on a common uniform, the deputy head believes “it is desirable that schoolchildren go to school in traditional white shirt and dark color trousers or a skirt.”

In relation to cautionary calls, it turned out the education department has also got complaints on the same subject but “everything has been worked out.”

The interlocutor of Panorama.am also said the education department has left the initiatives connected with money and the possibility of choosing uniforms “at the discretion of the parents and their free choice.”

It may be unclear what solutions may be taken on spots when some parents will not be able or willing to join “the army of the volunteers.” To recall, according to Sargis Tkhruni Union statement, the principal of N 151 school has collected 15,000 Armenian drams from each student for sewing a school uniform.