The Pedagogy Institute voted today to reject the Education Ministry’s proposal for reforms that would roll several elementary school classes into one.

The most controversial element of the proposal is that history is abolished as a stand-alone class and replaced with a mixture of history, geography and civics. The reaction to the proposal was driven by fears that the Zaev regime wants to use its “reform” to rewrite history books along lines demanded by Bulgaria and Greece.

We believe that the proposal has a number of methodological and didactical inconsistencies and proposals that don’t fit our educational and societal reality. We fear that implementation of this proposal can cause serious problems in the education system, the Institute said.

The Institute calls on the ministry to stop the implementation of its plan and to begin a broad and serious round of talks with educational experts. Several members of the Institute, including its director, came out in support of the Ministry proposal.