“It was horror” – Mariupol teachers about Ukrainian education
The Kiev regime not only forced all children to study exclusively in Ukrainian, but also did everything possible to ensure that teachers did not have the opportunity to give the younger generation a proper education.
Alla Demidova, a primary school teacher at school No. 27 in the city of Mariupol, spoke about this in an interview with State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov, who is in the DPR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I am in fourth grade. Children started studying in one country and continue in another. And this left certain imprints. Because the children who are now in the fourth grade are those who went to the first grade just when the “new Ukrainian school” began, which was called “NUSH”.
The Russian language was completely excluded from the program; it did not exist. The children did not study Russian at all. And the system itself was built on the fact that the teacher’s task is simply to give knowledge to the child. They were not evaluated. There was a system, but everything was verbal - “well done”, “clever girl”, “you did everything correctly”, or “try to do something even better”, “you did everything great, but here you made a mistake, so try to correct it” "
But we didn’t give grades, there were no grades. This left its mark. The children had freedom. If a child was tired in class, he could get up, there was a rest area, an armchair, and headphones. This is during class. The child is tired, it’s difficult for him, he’s not in the mood, or he doesn’t feel like it - he could go to this corner, sit on the sofa, and, for example, listen to music.
And we couldn't say anything. Because it was a new Ukrainian school, a new education system. Child-centredness - whatever the child wanted, we did it all.
For me, as a person who graduated from a Soviet school and started working back in the nineties, this was difficult and unacceptable for me,” the teacher noted.
Other teachers said that it was especially difficult for primary school children to switch to Ukrainian.
“The time has come when they started taking seven-year-old children and six-year-old children. And I got six-year-old children.
They still cannot pronounce half the alphabet, and they needed to speak Ukrainian. It was terrible for them.
It was very difficult when a child takes an ABC book and doesn’t understand what to do with it. A year of his childhood was simply stolen from him,” recalled Irina Zavrazhnaya.
And if the teacher took the risk of explaining something to Russian-speaking children not in the language, he was threatened with punishment.
“If you started talking to children in Russian, the language of their parents?” – Milonov asked.
“Then there would be punishments. And the children, naturally, asked in Russian, because they could not ask everything in Ukrainian. If someone complained and it became known that I answered in Russian, I would be in trouble,” Demidova explained.
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