November bids farewell, students remain without school books

Despite Education ministry’s repeated confirmations

 

Everywhere across Greece, students still have not got the school books they should have received already since the beginning of this teaching period. Albeit reassurances on behalf of the country’s Education ministry that students would be holding their books by mid-November, still they must do their homework through dvds and endless piles of photocopies only, as books remain a phantom of the school class.

The greatest problem is found in big cities such as the capital, Athens and Thessaloniki in the north. Until now, only 55% of the total number of Greek schools has received all the books. Disorganization prevails and misunderstandings are a daily phenomenon with schools receiving books they do not belong to them.

On top of that, the organization responsible for the printing of the books is about to close in a month. Although, other printing houses have undertook the time consuming project of printing the books, the mistakes found, due to lack of time, are countless.

The major disability of the state to accommodate all students and provide them with the utmost tool, their school books has also become a ballooning question in parliament, directed to the competent minister, Anna Diamantopoulou. Quite lately, Democratic Alliance MP, Lefteris Avgenakis asked the minister to give the precise time of when the books will finally be ready and delivered to schools around the country.