In the Riigikogu of the Conservative Conservative Society “Fatherland” (Isamaa) introduced the “Tallinn Plan of Protection of the Estonian Language”, which is based on the deruitation of education in the republic. This is reported on the site of political force.
According to the Russian Combating Plan, the Education and Language Council will be created in the Estonian capital, which will control the activities of educational institutions that should refuse to use the Russian language and fully switch to Estonian. The future chapter of the board will receive broad powers. In particular, he will be able to dismiss school workers who do not own Estonian language.
“Today’s education system, reproducing segregation, is one of the biggest pain points in Estonia,” said March, the candidate for the deputy mayor Tallinn said. The candidate for the mayor of the capital of Urmas Reinsalu added that the party has a clear plan, how to make Tallinn “Estonian in language and worldview.” He noted that this initiative will affect not only the field of education, but also other spheres of life of society.
Earlier Estonian President Alar Caris stated that the refusal of teaching in Russian in Estonia schools is impossible. The head of state also criticized the idea to make only Estonian-speaking higher education. According to him, such actions will be “some discrimination slightly”. At the same time, Caris stressed that the language still remains a significant split factor in society.
The current president of the country of Ceresti Calulide, on the contrary, repeatedly emphasized the need to force the process of estonization of education. In 2019, she supported the elimination of a bilingual education system in the country, explaining its position because the teaching of the Russian language in the country’s schools “represents the threat to Estonian language and culture.”