Association of Crimean Tatar educators “Maarifci” approached the Crimean Minister of Education, Science and Youth Ms.Natalya Honcharova with a proposal to eliminate the problem in the sphere of tutoring in Crimean Tatar language.

According to the latest information, they started questioning the quantity of classes taught in Crimean Tatar language at schools with tuition in Russian, as the teachers are overloaded and some parents don’t find it necessary.

Three hours per week must be given for learning the Crimean Tatar language as a Mother Tongue at schools with Russian language of tuition as a part of regional component of the schools’ study plan. There are less problems at schools with the Crimean Tatar language of tuition and in the Crimean Tatar forms based at Russian-tutored schools, however, they started studying 6 days per week in order to keep all the Crimean Tatar classes in forms 5 to 9.

Ms.Honcharova, on her part, said that the matter of facilitating classes with either Crimean Tatar or Ukrainian language of tuition hasn’t solved yet, named the lack of applications from the parents for their children to be tutored in those language as the main of the reasons for that.

It bears reminding that the “State Council” of Crimea is to revise the two drafts these days, “On Education” and “On languages in the Republic of Crimea” that are called to determine in what terms tutoring in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages must be held - as general or additional courses.

Annexed Crimea’s officials declared earlier that there would no longer be tutoring in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages on the peninsula.