Teachers' Union Demanded to Abandon Antigay Law, Return Kolmanovsky to School
"The Teacher" Interregional Trade Union of teachers warned "The Second School" Moscow lyceum that the dismissal of Ilya Kolmanovsky "if it be held, would totally be illegitimate and could not be justified by any moral or ethic mean".
Yesterday the trade union (joined by teachers from 15 Russian regions) published its statement "calling for the need to change the laws by which it had been made possible to easily violate the rights of the principal and the teachers".
At the same time "The teacher" trade union demanded to abandon the so-called "homopropaganda" ban. "If this draft law (#44554-6) is approved then the biology teacher who says that according to his opinion homosexuality was not a disease or a crime would be punished for propaganda of homosexuality among minors", says the statement.
"It is highly necessary to fix a legal norm according to which a teacher would have the right to tell the students any open scientific fact unless otherwise is not clarified by law, including these on homosexuality and other socially important nature and society phenomena and this should not be considered as propaganda or campaigning...", add the trade-union's leaders.
English translation presented by Yerdna Bananes
Yesterday the trade union (joined by teachers from 15 Russian regions) published its statement "calling for the need to change the laws by which it had been made possible to easily violate the rights of the principal and the teachers".
"It is highly necessary to fix a legal norm according to which a teacher would have the right to tell the students any open scientific fact unless otherwise is not clarified by law, including these on homosexuality and other socially important nature and society phenomena and this should not be considered as propaganda or campaigning...", add the trade-union's leaders.
English translation presented by Yerdna Bananes
