DECREE # 342 ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE
The pedagogical science and practice have born it
out that education of children in non-native language inflicts immense damage
to formation of individuality, causes mental and physical deformation among
children and condemns them to being inferior members of society. Nevertheless,
due to heavy legacy of the past, there are some incidents when parents, being
unaware of elementary requirements of pedagogical science, tend to make wrong
decisions - they enroll their children in non-Georgian pre-school
establishments and first classes of secondary schools. And all that is
happening when huge attention is being paid to restoration and strengthening of
State status of Georgian language.
Proceeding from the aforementioned, I decree:
1. To entrust the Ministries of Education of
Autonomous Republics, heads of Departments of Education of cities and
districts, directors (managers) of non-Georgian pre-school establishments and
secondary schools with a task of securing that not a single child of Georgian
nationality is enrolled in non-Georgian pre-school establishment and first
class of secondary school.
2. To entrust the Department of Education in
Secondary Schools with a task of monitoring proper implementation of this
decree.
Minister E.
Javelidze
(Archive of the Ministry of Education of