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According to Dainor Lukas, Advisor to the Minister of Education, Science and Sports, the BNS will be organized by the Lithuanian House of Vilnius under the Ministry, and teachers will be sought as close as possible to their accommodation. In the first half of the year, children will learn only the Lithuanian language, later, and other subjects.
“There will be no education from September 1, it is scheduled from October 1, because according to the law there is an obligation to start education within three months after the arrival of the children to the country, it will be in October” , Lukas. he told BNS.
According to data from the Ministry, 52 migrant children of school age are currently housed in Švenčionys district, Pabradė, and in Rukla, Jonava district, there are another 112 minors who would need education.
“These are the numbers that we really know; if education started now, it should be. Other children have not yet been distributed, they have not been relocated and we do not yet know how much they will need to be educated,” said D. Lukas.
In total, up to 1,000 children are expected
“It just came to our attention then. We estimate around 25 percent.” The migrants may be children, so based on current figures, there may be as many as 1,000, “said D. Lukas.
According to him, it is only the children of illegal immigrants who entered by Belarus, at that time the education of the Afghan children evacuated from Kabul to Lithuania will be decided later.
It is planned that the educational institutions in Pabradė can admit up to 400 foreign students in total, in Rukla about 100. In Pabradė, students could be admitted to two schools, at that time in Rukla the education of the children was agreed with four teachers .
“It is estimated that there is one teacher for every 30 children: he works three hours with a group of 15 children, the other three hours with 15 other children. The specific education will be determined by the Lithuanian House of Vilnius, which has experience in educating these children, ”said the Minister’s representative.
According to D. Lukas, foreigners can be taught not only the Lithuanian language, but also primary school and foreign language teachers.
The first year is for the Lithuanian language.
D. Lukas emphasized that according to legal acts, non-Lithuanian speakers must study Lithuanian in compensation class for one year, after six months they can start teaching Lithuanian history, geography, civics and other subjects. In the next school year, they can study normally, in Lithuanian, together with other students.
“It doesn’t matter that the teachers cannot communicate with the children in their mother tongue. These teachers are the ones who are going to learn to work with children who do not speak the language of the teachers, it is a methodology that the teachers follow very well ”, said D. Lukas.
4.1 thousand people illegally entered Lithuania through the Belarusian border this year. migrants. Vilnius accuses the Minsk regime of organizing the flow of migrants and calls it hybrid aggression, a state of emergency has been declared in the country and a physical barrier is being built at the border.
