In the year 2009. “Terrible” scandal in education. The Ministry of education and the Prosecutor’s office began to receive complaints from parents whose children (teenagers), they reported that teachers were “flagrantly violated the rights”. These children, horror of horrors, the teachers “forced” to wash the floors in the classrooms.
I remember how back then, some media, numerous whistleblowers, human rights activists and even state officials stated that this is “the teacher’s outrage,” because violated the rights of the child, which came to the school, you know, study, study and study again, but not to clean up after themselves…
For this reason in the Ural newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” mentioned in September 2009 published an article in which he described how the Prosecutor’s office of Yekaterinburg had identified those “egregious violations”. The article reported that the teachers of several schools of Verkh-Isetsky district of Yekaterinburg (then began to appear similar reports of other schools in the country), “violated the law” by forcing students to “serve the service” (which, incidentally, quote) for cleaning classrooms. “Duty” is to clean up your workplace…
Here are a few comments in the same material – comments from those who felt the cleaning of classrooms by students as a “terrible crime laws of the Russian Federation”.
Elena root (the mother of seven children):
“It’s unsanitary! Children MOP the floors without gloves, then go home, and on the way dirty hands eating chips and ice cream. Let the washing of floors do cleaners for a salary.”
Yuri okhochinsky (honored artist of Russia):
“Again, going back to Soviet times. The cleanliness of the floors is to keep the cleaner. And students from the first grade should be taught to care. Teachers need to tell them: “You come to the clean class, clean and must go home.”
In General, after parents complained to the Prosecutor’s office of the school received a prescription, and some Directors and teachers for the numerous violations were dismissed. The parents of Chad, where rights “infringed” apparently was satisfied, for since Chad had chips with perfectly clean hands and thoughts…
Materials of this nature in recent years you can find many. As a result, in our country the situation is reduced to the almost deification of the student, where it’s so white, fluffy and light that it is in any case impossible to draw even banal socially useful work.
Principals received ukazivki top on how to involve children in cleaning the school areas and school sites is a terrible taboo. After these ukazivki “down” to the teachers who stood before a choice – to get the attention of the Prosecutor’s office, to wash the floors in the study itself or to hire for a fee technical staff.
It would seem, but why the technicians for cleaning, for example, classrooms need to hire for a fee? – there’s staffing, rates and all that… But as it turned out, the case was again smooth only on paper, because the state ordered the school to involve in cleaning only the Technicals, but seem to have forgotten the state of the elementary Technicals to increase. For can not one lady for one bet in 6-7 thousand rubles turn into a “Mr. muscle”, which will not only scrub the floors in the corridors, on the stairs in the teachers ‘ lounge and principal’s office, but also in dozens of classrooms quickly, efficiently and with advertising brilliance…
Anticipating the question, ” what is this stuff doing on IN the? immediately want to note one detail. For some time now in our country has become very fashionable to remember the civil-Patriotic upbringing of children and young people (20 years plus, unfortunately was out of fashion…). So. On the background of loud statements of officials about the need to cultivate patriotism, love of country and respect for elders from a young Polish Prosecutor’s office continued to stand guard more than amazing legislation, under which any student involvement in socially useful work should be done on the basis of his personal consent and the necessary consent of his parents or guardians. But better – not held at all… I do Not agree – not with … you, lad, democracy is on your side…
In General, the understanding of certain officials and krivonosenko, civil-Patriotic education of the student can not and should not comport with the basic concept of the maintenance of the cleanliness of their workplace. If the child in the office was a mess, and here, guided by the above comment, the honored artist, blame the teacher, because, you know, not to explain to Chad that littering in the office can’t… Well, “babe”, knowing that he was in any way will be removed, and that the mud under his Desk, ask him, and the teacher or worker, has decided that to deliver the dirt – it’s kind of funny – even “the teacher” in trouble for what I stick gum under the Desk have nagris seeds and “fertilized” husk cactus in a pot.
Frankly, it’s hard to understand those parents who are foaming at the mouth trying to prove that a seemingly ordinary thing for cleaning your workplace should not touch their child. It is not clear what these parents are guided, and whom they all intend to educate?.. In fact, it is difficult to imagine that the child, which protect from the banal to the school cleaning, even 30 years ago was an essential part of school life (and even a good element of education), can grow into a decent, sympathetic man, respecting the interests of other people. But the likelihood of growing from a child of the egoist and full-fledged subject of the society of unbridled consumption, to which to spit on everything and everyone, until family and especially the country – a very large… Observations in recent years give reason to make such conclusions.
Well, now the news from the new head of the Ministry of education. Olga Vasilyeva said, it would seem, is impossible. According to the Minister, the cleaning of the school premises children must again become a common practice.
RIA Novosti cites Olga Vasilyeva:
“Not the small consumer and Creator, which in this school building together with us, teachers and parents. We should try to change the rules of communication between schools and parents, because in this respect we have all been turned on its head.”
I will allow myself to applaud this statement by the new Minister, though, because this statement reveals a simple truth: patriotism and civic consciousness is not only a stud met in the Park may 9 veteran, but also an understanding of their social responsibility. Responsibility at least of cleanliness in the apartment, in the hallway, in the yard, in the classroom. After all, how’s a classic: the disruption is not in the closet, and heads. And if the very essence of civil-Patriotic education was viewed under the prism of this winged phrase, and the problem of how to raise and where to get methods, get one of the simple and effective solutions.
Alexei Volodin
