EVENTS DEDICATED TO LAST BELL TO BE HELD ON MAY 24
20-05-2008 16:05:00 | Armenia | Social
YEREVAN, MAY 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Events dedicated to the Last
Bell will be held in Yerevan comprehensive schools on May 24. As
Onik Vatian, the Head of the Education Department of Yerevan
Mayor's Office, said at the May 19 press conference, by Mayor's
instruction all comprehensive schools have been ordered not to
permit holding of expensive school-leaving parties and
collection of big sums for that purpose.
O. Vatian said that a concert dedicated to the Last Bell
will be held on May 24 in Liberty Square with the participation
of variety singers, dance groups. In his words, the RA Police,
the prefectures, the Ambulance service have been charged to
implement maintenance of public order properly on that day.
According to the head of the department, on the day of Last
Bell some parents entrust their children to drive a car,
however, the child does not have that right. According to him,
the traffic police has been charged to immediately take cars to
the penalty area in such cases. Besides, O. Vatian has charged
school headmasters to discuss the issue of depriving that pupil
of the right to take final school exams at the sitting of an
individual, special pedagogical council.