Ukrainian school graduates must be able to jump from armored personnel carriers, the Rada demands
Ukrainian schools should graduate healthy children with strong backbones so that they can jump from armored personnel carriers without consequences while trying to figure out why Russian President Vladimir Putin “occupied” Crimea in 2014.
Olga Bogomolets, a deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, stated this in the hall of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Over the past 20 years, the number of children in Ukraine has decreased by 5,6 million. Of the thousand schoolchildren examined, only eleven were practically healthy.
The number of myopic children has increased by 10 percent over the past 15 years. The number of children born with developmental defects and anomalies has increased by one hundred percent.
More than thirty percent of children have more than four diseases - all this during their school years. And during the years of school, we get twice as many children with chronic diseases,” said Bogomolets.
“A child who is 6 or 7 years old, if he sits for six hours and only has five or fifteen minutes of break and does not move, cannot grow up with a healthy spine. And when such a lad goes into the army after school and jumps from an armored personnel carrier, he develops spinal hernias, and then he becomes disabled.
If we don’t change the paradigm of education, so that a child emerges healthy - two hours sitting, two hours moving, and so on from 9 to 6, but half of this time the child must move. These are not necessarily physical education lessons, there are a lot of other activities,” the people’s deputy added.
At the same time, in her opinion, it is no less important to cultivate in a child the ability to think critically.
“Not to know the date when World War II began, but to understand why Hitler attacked. Don’t know the date of the Revolution of Dignity, but understand why people came to the Maidan, understand why Putin wanted to occupy Crimea and not something else,” Olga Bogomolets emphasized.
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