Latvian Saeima has passed in the final reading amendments to the Law on Public Holidays, Commemoration Days, and Celebration Days proposed by President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs. These amendments propose celebrating World Teachers’ Day on the 5th of October from now on.
Until now, the law stated that Latvia celebrates Teachers’ Day on the first Sunday of October, the Saeima press-service reminds.
BNN previously reported that Rinkēvičs invited celebrating World Teachers’ Day on the 5th of October because the International Teachers’ Day is celebrated on this day in accordance with the 1994 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) initiative. The date was chosen in honour of the Recommendation on the Status of Teachers adopted by UNESCO and the International Labour Organization on the 5th of October, 1966.
The president mentions that until now Teachers’ Day in Latvia was celebrated on the first Sunday of October. This, according to him, often puzzles both students and their parents about when teachers are to be honoured.
“In order to unify the approach to celebrating Teacher’s Day in Latvia and thus emphasize the prestige and importance of this profession, I invite you to determine this day to be celebrated in accordance with the International Teacher’s Day on the 5th October,” as written in the letter the president sent to the Saeima Praesidium.
In his previous statements to mass media representatives, Rinkēvičs said this is a symbolic step towards pushing out one more Soviet tradition from Latvia.
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Teacher’s Day in Latvia to be celebrated on the 5th of October from now on
