PETITION CALLING THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL LUXEMBOURG I TO CHANGE ITS “NEUTRAL” POSITION IN RELATION TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE

PETITION CALLING THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL LUXEMBOURG I TO CHANGE ITS “NEUTRAL” POSITION IN RELATION TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE In response to the encouragement by the European School Luxembourg I to the teachers to discuss the war in Ukraine “on a neutral basis” (Letter from the Director of the School “The Situation in Ukraine” of 1 March 2022). We, the parents of the pupils of the European School Luxembourg I, express our strong disapproval with the School’s decision to stay neutral in relation to the war in Ukraine. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor” said the Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu. The EU has expressed a clear stance on the war in Ukraine. Every Member State, as well as the European Commission, have condemned the Russian invasion in Ukraine in the strongest of terms. The European school has to stand for the European values and call things their real names. ALL pupils of the school, including the Russian ones, need to know and understand that Russia is acting as a criminal state, brutally attacking Ukraine. Children have to know the truth and not be soaked in the delirium of neutrality, which is even not in line with the EU policy. We, therefore, ask the School: • To raise the flag of Ukraine beside its flag. • To light the school in yellow and blue. • To use appropriate terms in its communications about the situation. • To change alleged neutrality and neutral support of peace into clear expression of support to Ukraine. • To organise lessons on the war in Ukraine, given by competent people. • To organise actions to support Ukraine and its people in all possible ways.