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CLASSES TO RESUME FROM SEPTEMBER 17

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People with at least rudiments of the Georgian language can henceforth find a job in Akhalkalak. This criterion creates extra obstacles for state employees. The number of the unemployed is currently increasing in Akhalkalak. Therefore, local residents stick to the traditional source of income – construction and potato cultivation, which, in its turn, brings up problems with the Georgians.

The number of Georgians is rapidly increasing in Akhalkakalak. Besides, Georgians are becoming main employers in town.

School building is prospering in Akhalkalak. All schools have turned into Georgian-Russian or Georgian-Armenian since last year. The newly-appointed headmasters are either Georgians who are unaware of the Akhalkalaki educational problems or Georgian Parliament female deputies.

It is noteworthy that headmaster assignment has aroused deep resonance in town.

The staff complains that the headmaster was appointed illegally. She is completely ignorant of the school problems and doesn't have relevant skills. They held a protest action near the school and forbade the newly-appointed schoolmaster to step the newly built school.

“The construction was carried out by the financial support of my husband who is a deputy and who helped me to become the school principal,” she said.

“We are convinced that the new headmaster will initiate staff reduction and many teachers will become unemployed. On the other hand, many of us don't master Georgian that well,” said one of the teachers Ms Lusvard.

Akhalkalaki residents have nothing against the Georgian language, but they think that the language must be studied since early childhood and not at an elderly age.

The employees of the local hospital stay after work for Georgian classes. Many of them arrive from villages and have much work at homes. They are obliged to learn Georgian as all questionnaires, forms and documents are in Georgian.

“This upsets the equilibrium. Georgian is a state language. And yet we mustn’t forget our Mother Tongue and other important subjects,” said the principal of Diliska Village.

“Children would have studied the language if it weren’t obligatory. Though we can read Georgian we still cannot understand the language properly,” said Ms Stella.

To note, the new school year will begin from September 17 instead of September 1. Local residents state that the president does his best to differ from Georgia's rival Russia, even with “pointless decisions.”