The 4+4+4 School Reform Bill and the Fatih Project: is It a Reform?

Abstract

This article analyzes the new school reform bill, which is called 4+4+4 of schooling and the project of
Fatih that aims at intermitting 8 year compulsory education by dividing into 4+4 and contemplating to constitute the junior
high school of religious schools called (Prayer-Preaches High schools) in terms of historical, socio-political and scientific
facts. The habit of self-righteousness in Turkey is an ill that is very common in every aspect of different spheres of the daily
life. This implications relating to educational applications that based on the self-actualization of the ruling party and the
misusage of the limits and possibilities of power by ruling parties has been elicited in terms of educational sciences. It has
been observed that the new resolution of ruling party is not natural necessities of Turkish society but the initiatives of ruling
party’s members. The Fatih project has been elicited here as it is part of new resolution.