{"id":193031,"date":"2018-12-14T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/language-gaps-leave-schools-without-directors\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:49:22","slug":"language-gaps-leave-schools-without-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/language-gaps-leave-schools-without-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Gaps Leave Schools Without Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    This article was originally published by<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/ifact.ge\/en\/language-gaps-schools\/\"><br \/>\n      Ifact.ge<br \/>\n    <\/a><br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In December 2017, fluency in the Georgian language became mandatory for public school directors [in Georgia]. After candidates pass a test, and an interview, the Ministry of Education assigns them to a school. That local school board made up of parents, teachers and students then decides whether to accept the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>  The Kvemo Kartli region located just southeast of the capital of Tbilisi currently has 19 of its 250 schools with no directors. Twelve of these schools teach almost everything in the Azeri language spoken by many Kvemo Kartli residents. Ethnic Azeri candidates for school directors are often teachers who don\u2019t speak Georgian well enough to qualify. Georgian-speaking candidates are often turned down by the local school board.<\/p>\n<p>  The Ministry of Education told iFact.ge that they are not yet ready to announce the next school director competition.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/school-director-jobs-in-kvemo-kartli-are-complicated-by-two-languages\/\" alt=\"School director jobs in Kvemo Kartli are complicated by two languages\" class=\"wp-image-114099\"\/><figcaption>\n    School director jobs in Kvemo Kartli are complicated by two languages<br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  Sona Ismayilova has taught Georgian language for 25 years and works in Kesalo village near Gardabani. She says there are 1,100 children at her school and only one assistant director.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThere is no director,\u201d she said. &#8220;(Assistant director) Mammad Khiyalov can\u2019t do it alone. We asked him if we could hold a meeting and change the team that monitors teachers. He says we can change it when a new director is appointed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cHe had to divide lesson hours for 80-90 teachers. How good a system can that be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Ismayilova does believe the director must be fluent in Georgian, even if most students at this school don\u2019t understand it. Mandatory Georgian classes are scheduled five days a week for 45 minutes. But many Azeri students speak little or no Georgian outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThey won\u2019t translate everything for a school director at (ministry) meetings,\u201d Ismayilova said. \u201cThen the director won\u2019t be able to communicate the correct information back to the school.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nazarlo village is 10 minutes away from Kesalo. Elkhan Abdullayev, 68, resigned as director in September because of some health issues, and now works only as a geography teacher. The director\u2019s position is vacant. The school has 580 students and 55 teachers.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cWhen I was director, the assistant director was handling all issues concerning lessons, and I took care of everything else,\u201d Abdullayev said. \u201cWhen there is no director, everyone acts indifferently about their work and nobody controls teachers or students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Abdullayev doesn\u2019t think fluency in the Georgian language is vital. \u201cI don\u2019t know Georgian really well,\u201d he admits. \u201cI can understand some.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  \u201dBut it is mostly an Azerbaijan language school. If a director who doesn\u2019t know Azerbaijani language comes, how will she or he act around the children. What kind of contact will there be with the teachers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Nubar Bayramova, 27, who teaches Georgian language to Azeri students at the Nazarlo school, says she doesn\u2019t know who to talk to when she has problems. \u201cWhen there is only an assistant director, that person has to do everything for both teachers and students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Giorgi Tchautchidze, 42, was turned down by the Kesalo school board in 2015 after the Ministry of Education sent him as their candidate for director.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cI received a certificate that I passed the tests,\u201d he said. \u201cI chose three schools, and one of them was Kesalo. But the school board didn\u2019t choose me. They chose another candidate who was not Georgian and was teaching at a nearby school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cWhen I was sent to Kesalo school, I knew that I had little chance. No one on the board voted for me. In general, ethnic schools may just not want a Georgian director.\u201d Tchautchidze now teaches at a Russian-language school in Marneuli. The Kesalo director has since left that position.<\/p>\n<p>  Tamar Mosiashvili, an education expert at the NGO Civic Development Institute, says a director is responsible for hiring, organizing class schedules, and representing the school in relations with outside parties.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cAppointing school directors is complicated,\u201d she said, adding that it often doesn\u2019t matter if a candidate has a close relationship with the school.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThe Ministry of Education sends the candidates wherever they want. They may send 2-3 candidates to a school board. If they don\u2019t choose one, the ministry will send new candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Mosiashvili says directors must know Georgian.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cIt is bad when a school staff does not want an ethnic Georgian director,\u201d she said. \u201cI do know some schools where ethnic minorities want a Georgian director. In fact, those schools have developed better.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cA director who can\u2019t speak Georgian is not going to be able to develop and improve a school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School boards in Azeri-speaking communities vote against potential Georgian candidates applying as director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Language Gaps Leave Schools Without Directors - 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