"Wherever there is content that offends, degrades or is not appropriate, we should remove it and we will remove it," said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, referring to the Geography textbook for the second year of secondary education, which will be withdrawn following reactions that contain content offensive to Albanians.

The Minister of Education and Science Mila Carovska and her predecessor Arber Ademi, yesterday at a working meeting with the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Political System and Inter-Community Relations Artan Grubi discussed the concept of education reform and the Law on Textbooks for Primary and Secondary Education. Withdrawal from the teaching of the textbook Geography of the Republic of Macedonia for the second year - reformed high school with a letter to the Ministry of Education and Science requested the Youth Forum of the Alliance for Albanians. The letter stated that parts of the textbook were offensive to the culture, history and other values ​​of the Albanians in the country, that they were xenophobic and contributed to the stigmatization and encouragement of hate speech against Albanians.

The Albanian public is shocked by the content of the textbook which states that “among the current Macedonian Albanians there are people who see themselves as natives. This mainly is Macedonian population which during the Turkish occupation took in Islam and in time became Albanians. Among them there are people who come from the then Turks, Roma or Cherkezi”. According to the logic, will those changes also remove inappropriate content which use offensive terms for the Roma such as “Gypsies”. Is someone “man” enough to propose these changes?

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