MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier in the day, tens of thousands of Hungarian citizens took part in a protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's education sector reforms.
"If, within eight days by March 23, Prime Minister Viktor Orban [does] not apologize to the people humiliated during the last six years then we will call a national one-hour stop to work on March 30," Istvan Pukli, a headmaster of a prestigious Budapest high school, said at a rally, as quoted by the Hungarian HVG magazine.
Orban’s government introduced a reform of the public education system back in 2010, imposing a national curriculum, centralized teaching material and finally put Hungary's schools under the management of a central state organization commonly known as KLIK.
Hungarian teachers are currently calling for a reduction in teaching hours and the right to choose textbooks, claiming the government’s education reforms are excessively authoritarian.
