Hundreds of students from high schools in Athens have been demonstrating against the changes that Education Minister Kostas Gavroglou's new bill will bring.

"With a smattering of algebra and without geometry, the Ministry of Education cultivates mathematical illiteracy and the cognitive degradation of schools," noted a statement by the Greek Mathematical Society, letting loose barbs against the Minister of Education, Kostas Gavroglou after the decision not to include math lessons in the 1st and 2nd Lyceum (high school) examinations, while there was already a reduction in math courses in the Gymnasium (junior high school).

The Pan-Hellenic Association of Theologians attacked education minister Kostas Gavroglou, indicating that through the practices of the Ministry of Education, efforts are being made to "de-orthodoxize" children,