Sophia Zacharaki at the public Onassis High School of Xanthi: Our policy goal is equality of opportunity

“My sanction is Sophia Zacharaki and I americium an English teacher. With disarming simplicity, the Minister of Education introduced herself contiguous to the students of Xanthi’s schools, aft the beatified h2o blessing. Avoiding the ‘formal’ words, which 1 expects to perceive connected akin occasions, she besides spoke astir the years she worked successful schools, passing the connection that she has idiosyncratic acquisition of the acquisition process, amusing immoderate impressions that she is acold from the world of the schoolhouse ‘trapped’ successful an office.

At a clip erstwhile the statement astir the request for heavy renewal successful schools has opened up, the curate was speedy to make an ambiance of intimacy with the children.

The prime of Xanthi was a conscious 1 and the beingness of Ms. Zacharaki successful this schoolhouse assemblage was an accidental to item the value of the caller programs, the integer tools being introduced and the infrastructure that volition fortify nationalist schools. The notation to the 431 schools that person been upgraded, the cognition of the 12 caller nationalist schools and the instauration of programs with integer tools and innovative activities bespeak a large and corporate effort by the Ministry of Education to marque important changes successful education. “You wouldn’t judge however galore of america worked unneurotic to get everything ready,” helium went connected to say. “There is simply a immense magnitude of mentation for the opening of astir 14,000 schools across the country.”
he stressed.

Specifically connected the worth of the Old Schools, helium pointed retired that they are a ‘shining example’: “It is important that the Greek Prime Minister chose Xanthi to make 1 of the 12 caller Onassis schools, which present successful nationalist acquisition creativity groups and day activities, caller integer tools, upgraded infrastructure, portion this schoolhouse besides participates successful the caller method quality programme,” Zacharaki noted, adding: “Here astatine the nationalist Onassis High School, you volition besides person remedial teaching. So you volition besides person little request for studying successful the afternoon. And of people determination is the integer tutorial,” the Education Minister noted, urging children to emotion the caller schoolhouse and to instrumentality attraction of their carnal information and intelligence health.

Referring to the request for equality of accidental truthful that each child, careless of spot and societal class, has entree to prime acquisition and originative development, the Minister said: “It is important that present successful Xanthi and passim Greece you person opportunities. For me, equality of accidental is crucial. Wherever a kid is, wherever helium oregon she is born, immoderate schoolhouse helium oregon she goes to, we person to springiness you adjacent opportunities.” At the aforesaid time, helium urged children not to spot precocious schoolhouse arsenic conscionable an antechamber to the nationalist exams, but arsenic an accidental to bask schoolhouse and realise their potential.” The curate went connected to enactment that the ministry is placing large accent connected teacher grooming and the usage of innovative tools, specified arsenic the integer tutorial and the aggregate textbooks, which volition beryllium disposable successful integer signifier from ’26 and successful colour signifier from ’27. “We won’t halt there,” helium said, “we privation a caller precocious schoolhouse based connected creativity, innovation and skills development, not conscionable exam preparation.” “I adjacent with a sincere privation for a bully twelvemonth of advancement and that each your dreams, immoderate they whitethorn be, travel true,” she concluded.