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so on september 15th, the first day of school here, 3 of the mothers here decided that they did not approve of the way Zlataritsa chooses to separate the children in the 1st grade classes.

so these 3 mothers, whose children were entering into the 1st grade (which means they were coming from the kindergarten, which means there is a good chance i taught all of their children their english 123's and ABC's) decided to start a petition to change the division of the two first grade classrooms.

what was the problem here?
what was so horrible about the division of children that three of the local women decided to start collecting signatures to change?
well, i'll tell you.

the women petitioned to have the children separated, not by random choice, alphabetical, chronological, astrological or however they do it...

but by race.

yes folks you heard me.
these women wanted the bulgarian children of the town (about 50%) learning in a separate classroom than the Roma (gypsies) in town.
apparently the other bulgarian parents agreed, because with the exception of one family, all of the ethnic bulgarian parents signed the petition.
on the first day of school this petition (which was made without the knowledge of the Roma parents) was presented to the school director who immediately called the mayor asking the mayor what to do.

the mayor settled it in about .05 seconds.
loosely translated he said, "are you kidding me? what year is this? 1900? how about we start having separate bathrooms and drinking fountains too because that is about how logical this insane petition is. throw it away while i go cry for the mentality of my constituency."

ok, actually i have no idea what he said exactly, this is just what i am imagining he said in my head.
anyway regardless, the outcome was...nothing.
the petition was thrown out at once.
the children will study together. just like they live together and play together.

i'll say nothing more on the matter.
as i don't think korpusa na mira would exactly appreciate my oppion on this being posted on any sort of public site.