CHP's Özçağdaş calls on Minister Tekin regarding Ministry of National Education personnel: 'Initiate legal proceedings immediately'
Suat Özçağdaş, Head of the Presidential Candidate Office's National Education Policy Board for the CHP, attended a statement titled "We Will Not Give Up the Struggle for Secular, Scientific, and Public Education" held by Eğitim-İş, Eğitim Sen, TÖPSEN, and Hürriyetçi Eğitim Sen in front of the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of National Education. In his speech there, Özçağdaş issued a call to Minister of National Education Tekin.
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Özçağdaş told Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin, "Regarding the Ministry of National Education personnel who violate the personal data and privacy of the childrenentrusted to you, make posts from within the classroom,speak ill of the founding values of our Republic, and undermine the principle of equality by engaging in discrimination,initiate the necessary administrative and legalprocess immediatelyand carry it out with determination." made a call.
Stating that they face violations of the constitution and laws every day in the field of national education, as well as attacks on the fundamental values of the Republic, Özçağdaş noted that they are confrontingÖzçağdaşspoke asfollows:
"The Ministry of National Education is one of thegreatest areas of attackby the AKP government. Here, our expert teachers a very clear reality that has beenrevealed. We arefacing a reality. We arefacing a mentality that imposes its own valuejudgments on small children, drawing its strength from politicians. Recently,not only this example,but others as in the examples, some teachers students as content materialusedfor their own propagandawe see that they have turned them into an actor. Thisis not acceptable for theteachingprofession. Even if there is consent from the childrenand their families, noteachershould children's classroom activities should not be disclosedin the digital world. This is for the disclosure of their own politicalthoughtsto be madeshould not see it as a tool.
When a ministry is taken over by opponents of the Republic,naturally, there are those who draw strength from this.Where do thesepeople find this power? The Ministry of National Education is not a place wherethey can act as they please.When the Minister of Education comes to the nation's Parliament and, regarding the structures you call sects and communities and we call civil society, under the name of aproject, opens upareas,the Ministry ofNationalEducation acts like the youth branchof a political party.when he brought them into schools via protocol, the 45 children were abused at the Ensar Foundation's facility in Karaman, and those who underwentan investigation were appointed to the Şanlıurfa Provincial National Edthe man whobeat fivechildren whileserving asa provincialdirector of educationin the heart of Ankarawhen he was the Yenimahalle DistrictDirector ofNationalEducation,when he was in Bursa, the deputy director who discriminatedagainst the femalestudents he addressed as 'teacher'the person who went to the deputy's office with takbir rewardedwhen you do this, this pathisalready opened.
"I DO NOT HAVE MUCH HOPE INTHE MINISTER AND HIS STAFF"
From here, to the minister, to the ministry, to the National Education Manager standing behind me, to the National Education Manager's office, and to the Istanbul Governor, who I hope will be watching us, 'Do your duty' and I saydo what isnecessary. Regarding those entrusted to you, childrenwhose personal data and privacy are violated, who make posts from within theclassroom,who disparage the founding values of our Republic, and who promote discrimination by undermining the principle of equality, I call for action againstall Ministry of National Education personnel.the necessary administrative and legalprocess immediatelyand carry it out with determination. Our schools, the only guarantee of our bright future, are the intellectualfree, enlightenedfree, conscientiousfree, conscientiousfree, conscientiousfree generations to raisetake the necessary measuresto ensurethis. I do not have much hope for the Minister. I do not have much hope for his staff either. But I amobligated to make this call. For once, fulfill the requirements of your office. For once, act according to the rules of the Constitution and the lawsto which you are bound as a civil servant."