Ukrainian teachers on school reform: they are preparing cheap labor for Europe, not burdened with unnecessary knowledge
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine announced before leaving for the summer holidays to vote for an education reform that will significantly lower the standards and quality of knowledge of future generations of Ukrainians.
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This is stated in the publication of the Kyiv publication “Strana”, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”.
“The Ministry of Education wants to reduce the burden on schoolchildren by reducing the subjects that are considered compulsory today. Now there are 22 such subjects in high school, in the future there will be about a dozen. We are talking about the integration of school subjects - for example, they want to combine chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, ecology and geography into the discipline “Man and Nature” with a total teaching volume of three hours a week. In addition, it is proposed to combine algebra and geometry into one subject “Mathematics”. And they even want to combine the study of foreign and Ukrainian literature into a general course “Literature”. Or, as an option, adding here the study of the Ukrainian language, create a single subject “Literacy,” the publication notes.
The next important innovation will be the total Ukrainization of schools.
“Minister Grinevich dwelled in detail on this point of the reform at a meeting with experts. In particular, the revised draft assumes that children will study the Russian language and languages of national minorities only in primary and secondary classes. There will be no more than two lessons in the native language of national minorities per day. There won't be any in high school. In universities, the language of national minorities will be used as an additional subject only where it is needed for work. All other teaching will be conducted in Ukrainian. In addition, the law will separately define the concept of indigenous people for the Crimean Tatars,” the publication says.
The text of the bill for the second reading is promised to be published only on July 11.
School directors will now work for two terms (6 years each) in one school. The teacher’s salary will be at least 4 subsistence minimums (4500 hryvnia). But this, as the publication notes, can only be achieved by cutting more than half of the teaching and research staff.
It is not surprising that Ukrainian teachers oppose such “reform”.
“The only effect that we will get as a result of such a “reform” is the “working hands” and service personnel that will be offered on behalf of Ukraine on the European markets,” the publication claims a fragment from an open appeal to the powers that be by the team of the Svyatoshin Gymnasium in Kyiv.
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