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Starting in the new school year, the government will reduce and then completely withdraw additional support from the Hungarian Evangelical Community (MET) schools. MET also maintains several kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Budapest and in disadvantaged areas of the country, such as Tiszaszentmárton in Szabolcs or Beregdaróc county.
Pastor Gábor Iványi, head of the MET, wrote in the church’s Thursday bulletin that Secretary of State Zoltán Maruzsa informed him of the decision on August 5, which was made because “they do not believe that what has been spent on educational institutions of the MET during the last fifteen years bear fruit. Furthermore, they cannot measure educational level ”.
According to Iványi’s letter, the ministry also complained that MET institutions returned a low proportion of “non-mandatory family history index surveys” to the Office of Education and therefore “cannot measure or compare results with other similar institutions “.
Iványi argued, on the one hand, that hundreds of children had completed eight classes with them, many of whom had graduated or obtained a profession, and
“Given that a large proportion of them come from extreme poverty, why other supports provided by the school, such as family care, social administration, aftercare, mental health care (meals, clothing and even help family, especially in winter and food packages), should not be a good return. “According to Iványi, Maruzsa insisted that “this can also be a kind of look.” Regarding the family history index, she said that it is not mandatory to return, “and in any case, our institutions are not comparable to, say, the capital or the educational institutions of the elite church.”
In 2012, the government signed another five-year public education contract with MET, which has been extended year after year since it expired in 2017. According to Iványi, Maruzsa offered to give half of the previous grant for the last time, for one year. , if he agreed not to sign a new contract later. In fact he said
the secretary of state suggested that if the operation could not be solved, they were willing to maintain the institutions in the state.“We answered his question that the fifty percent option is not acceptable to us, and he fired us for continuing to think,” wrote Iványi, who has not been sought since.
We asked the Ministry of Human Resources, based on their response, the matter was resolved: it was written that based on the August 5 agreement, half of the additional support, 95 million florins, would be delivered to the MET. The reduction was justified on the basis that
“Of the subsidies available, the ministry spent some of its resources on epidemiological control, the reduction was also implemented in the case of other beneficiaries.”Even this 50 percent was confirmed to be only for one school year. We have also indicated to the MET that from the 2021-2022 school year this additional support is not expected, the operation of the institution must be ensured from the forms of support specified in the legislation ”. No other professional reason was given as to why they no longer support MET.
The MET and the government have been in a decade-long struggle since the new church law in 2011 deprived the MET of its church status. Therefore, the people of Iványi turned first to the Constitutional Court and then to the Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, where in 2017 they were awarded one billion HUF in damages. The MET is still involved in several court cases against the state.
According to Iványi, the damages from Strasbourg also went to the debts they had accumulated because, along with their condition, they had also lost bidding opportunities, just as they were unable to collect a percentage, since then. Since children from mostly poor families attend their schools, they are also not allowed to take tuition.
However, you can imagine that the schools will stay, but he sees this as a miracle.
“In the last few years, there have been countless examples of us kicking last and some help at the last minute. I just say with faith that I believe we will be able to work. But of what, I can’t say. “In a statement last August on the fight against the government, Iványi wrote, “Meanwhile, it has also come to light that the prime minister is also driven by personal motivations. Supposedly you can’t forgive me for mesmerizing you on the basis of some (unspecified) parliamentary decision. Insults are not my habit, but political facts speak for themselves. It can be said that in a just democracy, our rights should not be guaranteed by the momentary whims of mortals, but by impeccable objective laws. That is why we continue to fight, despite the fact that our complaints from the government put us in financially insurmountable situations. “
Iványi, who once added Viktor Orbán and Aniko Lévai, called Viktor Orbán a symbol of fascism in a portrait article in the New York Times.
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