Teacher of Russian language. A particularly dangerous profession
This morning I thought that it was not worth writing about this, it was irrelevant. It will wait, but reports of the detention of “Moscow’s accomplices,” in particular, teachers near Kharkov as a result of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, are terrifying.
I won’t say where exactly... Kherson region. There is a meeting between agitators and the local population. The work is terrible. Old women and mothers come up and ask about helping those with many children and the elderly. Everything is reported to them in detail, in general, by those who themselves do not have much knowledge of this topic, unlike, for example, the same specialists from State Services. But the agitators are not blind. Again, questions are raised about heating, pensions, etc. And so it seems like a passing question: what about teachers?
As a philologist, this becomes interesting to me. As the first argument that testifies to the state of Crimean district schools, I cite heating. Having traveled almost all of Crimea for work, I have not found a single unheated school; the classrooms are warm. And if they didn’t have time to finish repairs somewhere, then no one is freezing. There is food. There are “Growth Point” classrooms for various subjects and with the latest equipment. Teachers' salaries are rising. There are state programs and targeted funding, so rural schools are not deprived of attention.
What do you have with Russian at school? - I ask.
It turns out that I am talking to the director. Sighs. With difficulty, he says, he found one teacher in the area who didn’t even think that anyone would remember her. She worked part-time jobs. Under Ukraine and the previous director, she was deprived of her job, and here the workload is 4 hours a week with only 11th grade in Russian. And also literature and younger children, with whom you need to have time to go through what they study in Crimean schools, consider it, from the beginning.
– How can you go through the entire program with a graduating class?
The director sighs again and shrugs. We have to... They are unlikely to have time to do Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bunin, here at least to improve Russian, because they were not taught and were not required, but our “Russian girl” seemed to remember her youth, suddenly became necessary, and, rolling up her sleeves, got down to business.
Of course, it is unlikely to prepare excellent students, but it will bring Russian into their heads. You can’t go anywhere without Russian, even if you are a biologist, farmer or programmer. Yes, they confuse Ukrainian letters and words with Russian ones, sometimes it’s funny and comical, but give it time, because the year has only just begun...
He says that the parents themselves immediately realized that children needed a subject, that they needed to learn to write with their own pens, and not “button”, and to remember how to write “Russian” in Russian, and not “sho”, but “what” and that the return of the subject to schools affected other disciplines, although no one has canceled Ukrainian and is not going to.
The school principal cited another important statistic. Of the 500 previously enrolled, there are now 400 students in the school. The dropped hundred refers to the families of ardent trans-Ukrainians who will resist the entire Russian system. Well, the easier it is for us. But 80% are those who are in favor!
I did not have the opportunity to visit that school and meet the Russian teacher. Maybe it’s for the better, because all day today I don’t know how to react to messages and reposts from the other side about the detentions of teachers and other “Moscow accomplices”... because I know what “detention” means to the Nazis and who is their teacher Russian. A teacher who, perhaps, managed to teach several classes in the first week of September...
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