Following the incident at the Anushavan Ter-Ghevondyan Music School in Yerevan: "The child took it very hard... but we explained to her that she has a very strong and patriotic teacher who did not allow her drawing to be excluded from the exhibition." This was shared by Anush Danielyan, the mother of the 10-year-old girl from Artsakh. Danielyan is an English teacher who is currently a homemaker, as reported by "Aravot."

The incident took place at the Anushavan Ter-Ghevondyan Music School in Yerevan. The "Center for the Preservation of Artsakh Culture" NGO sounded the alarm today, stating: "During an exhibition-competition, the acting director of the school removed a hand-drawn artwork by one of the students from the exhibition booth. The drawing depicted the Stepanakert monument 'We Are Our Mountains' ('Tatik-Papik'), and the acting director labeled it an 'anti-state act.'" The teacher, who subsequently left the school, did not wish to give an interview regarding the incident.

In a conversation with Aravot.am, Mrs. Anush shared some details. During their discussion, the teacher clarified that she was not fired but chose to resign voluntarily. She told the parents that she could not work in a place where a child's artwork is torn off the wall and labeled anti-state, wondering how she could explain this to the child and tell her not to paint the symbol of her homeland when that is what lives in her mind and heart.

The incident unfolded as follows: the teacher completed the preparatory work in the evening and went home. Early the next morning, she received a call saying that one of the children's drawings was missing. She arrived at the school and discovered that the director had torn it down and taken it. After a confrontation with the director, the teacher retrieved the drawing from his office—partly by force—and posted it back in its original spot. The teacher's persistence paid off, and the drawing was displayed at the exhibition, though the 10-year-old Artsakh girl will no longer study at this school. Since specialists note she has great talent, her parents plan to transfer her to another school.

The incident has served as a litmus test. Efforts to contact Suren Gevorgyan, the acting director of the "A. Ter-Ghevondyan Music School No. 1" SNCO, were unsuccessful, as phone calls went unanswered. The "Center for the Preservation of Artsakh Culture" NGO had addressed an official letter to the Yerevan Municipality. In response, the Municipality provided the written explanation of the school director without offering any assessment of its own.

Apress Margaryan, the president of the NGO, does not find the director's explanation—which claimed the drawing was removed solely due to internal disciplinary violations because it was posted without prior approval from the administration—to be credible. He noted that the displayed artwork corresponded to the general theme of the competition, and only the drawing depicting the Artsakh monument was removed, which raises serious questions about the true motives behind this decision. Margaryan also considered it significant that the director's official explanation used the phrasing "the image of grandmothers and grandfathers" instead of the official name of the monument "We Are Our Mountains," which is difficult to view as an accidental slip of the tongue, especially in an official text written by the head of an educational institution.

The child's parents are also deeply bewildered by the incident. Anush Danielyan noted that all of this points to very bad things, as attempts are being made to erase their homeland from memory. According to her, on a state scale, they are abandoning Artsakh and trying to erase even the memories, but this will not succeed—partly because there are still such principled and honorable teachers in our educational system.