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Opposition calls for scrapping national curriculum amendment
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The opposition Párbeszéd party will submit a proposal to parliament to scrap amendments to the national curriculum (NAT), which the government published last Friday.
The draft “reflects the [ruling] Fidesz party’s far-right ideology,” Párbeszéd lawmaker Bence Tordai said, insisting the curriculum was not fit for setting the direction for public education.
Tordai accused Fidesz of “trying to push through its radical right-wing ultraconservative ideology” when it came to the teaching of Hungarian literature and history.
The lawmaker called on the government to consult professional organisations with a view to forming a consensus-based, high-quality curriculum.
Meanwhile, Democratic Coalition (DK) deputy group leader Gergely Arató acused state secretary Bence Rétvári of “going beyond the pale” in a dispute concerning NAT by attacking “a professional organisation of high repute”. Arato cited a Facebook entry by Rétvári stating that it was “no surprise” that the association of history teachers had made “hair-raising comments” about the curriculum, “given the support they had received from US financier George Soros for years”.
Arató accused Rétvári of presenting the history teachers’ association as “Soros agents”, adding that the government’s attitude towards professional organisations was “shocking and unacceptable”.
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