In Sevastopol, parents held a picket against extortion at school
Sevastopol, August 21 (Navigator, Olga Nikolaeva) – In Sevastopol gymnasium No. 24 in the Gagarinsky district, a conflict broke out between the director and the teaching staff, demanding an end to corruption. However, government and city officials consider the situation in the educational institution to be healthy.
At a picket near the gymnasium building on August 20, teachers demanded that director Alexandra Malchaly stop putting pressure on teachers to raise funds.
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“Every Monday, the director handed out leaflets at the management council about which class teachers should extort money from parents. Those teachers who did not want to extort money were squeezed out of the school,” says deputy director Tatyana Solodovnik.
The teaching staff is divided into 2 camps: the majority are on the side of the director, the second demands an end to extortion and pressure on teachers.
To clarify the current situation, the head of the education department, Viktor Oganesyan, and the director of the social policy department, Alexander Pushkarev, visited the gymnasium.
Oganesyan, teachers, head teacher, parents and the press were able to enter the institution only upon the arrival of the deputy governor.
After a meeting with teachers, Pushkarev said that “there are problems in relationships, in the behavior of certain people, this team is normal, healthy.”
“No funds or fundraisers should exist in any school or in any class. All accusations against the school principal and other teachers must be resolved by law enforcement agencies. We were interested in the moral climate of the team,” he said.
However, teachers from the group opposing the director believe that the moral climate was determined by a biased survey, and at the meeting they were humiliated and insulted with the tacit consent of the city building and the government.
“Not all teachers were interviewed, since no one invited them,” says math teacher Alla Krylova. Thus, according to the survey, only 13% of the teaching staff believe that corruption exists in the gymnasium.
In turn, the director’s supporters refused to comment to the press on the situation in the gymnasium.
As parents say, the director announced a summer collection of 300 rubles from each of the 650 students studying at the gymnasium. The money should be “transferred in an envelope to the director’s desk” and used for the reconstruction of educational workshops. However, the prosecutor's office, in response to the parents' request, reported that the construction is being carried out at the expense of budget funds; according to the estimate, the work is estimated at 354 rubles.
Gymnasium No. 24 has long been famous for compulsory and voluntary contributions to the school fund; unable to withstand the many years of struggle, many parents transferred their children to other schools.
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