Wednesday 16 September 2015 – 13:50
The Amazigh associations stepped their position against the Ministry of National Education, the day after a ministry meeting in which a number of educational prosecutors to end the mandate of specialized professors in teaching the Tamazight language, and assigning, oral decisions, teach Arabic or French, and threatened associations to go to vigils in front of the Minister in charge of the sector, In the face of educational prosecutors involved, and the prosecution of the House of Representatives who issued orders to end the mandate of the Amazigh professors.
And through the representatives of the Observatory Amazigh of Rights and Freedoms, and the Association of Tmaynout, the Association of Researchers and researchers of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, and the Confederation of Moroccan associations teachers Amazigh and teachers, (crossed) their disapproval with the decisions of assigning specialized teachers in the teaching of Tamazight to teaching Arabic and French instead, said Jamal Abdi, head of the Confederation “This is a disaster, and we hold the Ministry of National Education responsible for what will result from this situation.”
Ending task of Professors which the King has visited the classroom
The number of teachers who specialize in teaching the Tamazight language, who reached the orders to teach other languages, according to preliminary list that reached by the four associations 72 professor, Rabat came on top of the list of the academies known ending the mandate of the Amazigh professors with 23 professors, followed by Khenifra with 15 professors, while The number of professors who assigned Finish in Tinerhir 10 professors, and 7 in Achtouka Ait Baha, a professor and one in Khemisset.
The four Amazigh association officials have critisized the ministry of national education, who held a press seminar under the theme: “Tamazight teaching: and the continued discrimination”, abuse and Ministry of National Education with teaching the Tamazight language style, and with the professors assigned to teach, said Ahmed Assid the head of the Observatory Amazigh of Rights and Freedoms: “the least we can It said about the method that is being done to deal with the Amazigh professors that he despised and insulting “, and continued:” There are professors with great references in Tamazight teaching, and today they are treated carelessly. ”
Assid asked in an interview with Hespress How is it possible to convene some deputies of the Ministry of National Education to end the mandate of the Amazigh professors and some of them spent more than eleven years of teaching Tamazight, and those professor already have been visited by the King Mohammed VI in the section which is studying the Tamazight. Professor Fatima Brahimi, a Tamazight professor in Rabat for ten years, had commented on the decision to mandate the teaching of the Arabic language instead of Tamazight by saying: “I’m at the top of frustration.”
Mrs Brahimi said, in an interview with Hespress that her fellow professor and professors who were ending assigned Tamazight teaching are still confused about the verbal decisions that reached out to teach other languages, and wondered: “How can I study material did not I teach since more than eleven years, I’ve got what we give, I will not hide now admitted to the department and I am very frustrated, “while Assid said in the same vein:” These decisions randomized evidence that those responsible for the education are doing a patchwork.”
Dissemination of Tamazight teaching in decline
The four associations strongly criticized the decline at the state level commitment in the teaching of Amazigh, after the approval of inclusion in the Moroccan educational system in 2003. While the number of professors components amounted to a decision of the Ministry of National Education during the twelve previous years 14,000 teachers and school, did not exceed the number of professors who have exercised the actual teaching of the Berber for a limited period, 5,000 teachers, of whom only 380 specialists, but this figure, began to decline in recent years, according to association.
Through Kamal Aqa, for researchers Association and researchers of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture displeasure Amazigh of the slow pace at which goes by the Tamazight teaching, and went on to say: “Every year we move from the status of miserable to put more worse,” the spokesman added that ending the mandate of the Tamazight professors decisions do not in line with the spirit of the Constitution of 2011, and are incompatible with the Supreme Council for Education and Training and Scientific Research report, while Assid said: “With this perspective may not generalize Tamazight, even after 150 years.”
It seemed frustration evident on the faces of Amazigh activists during the press seminar, as representative of the Organization “Tmaenot”, Boumbar Abdul Salam said: “We were waiting to be the inclusion of Tamazight in the educational system actually after the constitutional document, which stipulates the demarcation of the Tamazight, but the opposite is what happened,” The spokesman pointed to the strategic vision of the Supreme Council for Education and Training, said: “I did not come Amazigh stated in this strategy, and this is a serious indication that the Constitution of 2011 was only generating dust in the eyes”.
In exchange for the frustration apparent on the faces of Amazigh activists, but they stressed that the mandate of the Amazigh professors decisions teach other languages will not pass unnoticed, and said Assid: “We are against these assignments mood, and demand the return of professors concerned to classes teaching Tamazight, and accounting staff who violate resolutions the ministry, and if it is not correct this situation, we will instruct to run and vigils in front of the ministry of education and prosecutors involved, and think about the lawsuits against those who break the law. “]]>
Activists critical of “contempt” by the Ministry of Education toward Imazighen professors
