Congress of Parents urged to return Russian education to half a century ago Who wins wars?
The answer to this question has long been known. In wars, the school teacher wins. Following German Chancellor Bismarck, American President John F. Kennedy said this at the time: "The USSR won the space race for the school desk." All this confirms the role of education as a factor of national security and defense capability of the country.
THEIR INDIGNANT MIND IS BOILING, the role of education and upbringing for the preparation of defenders of the fatherland is also realized in our country.
Although in the last 30 years, another task has actually been implemented – the formation of anti-patriots and consumers.
When the special operation began, the process of consolidation of patriots began. On March 5, 2022, a Congress of the scientific and educational community of Russia in support of traditional values was held. And on June 1, 2022, a Congress of Russian parent organizations was held – teachers, lawyers, psychologists who advocate the restoration of sovereign education in our country.
The congress was attended by Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy, Senator Margarita Pavlova, Doctor of Medical Sciences Denis Ivanov, leader of the public movement "Parents of Moscow" Ilona Menkova, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of MIPT Alexey Savvateev, other researchers and public figures.
Andrey Tsyganov, editor-in-chief of the Katyusha news agency, stressed: "We have been taught since childhood that school will not teach bad things. But now the situation has fundamentally changed. In these circumstances, parents have the right to self–defense - the current legislation leaves full priority for parents in relation to the protection of their own children, including in education."
Georgy Malinetsky, a full member of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Russian Federation, recalled a recent meeting with schoolchildren from one of the best physical education schools in Russia. He asked the students: do they understand that now the fate of Russia is being decided in Ukraine? In response, I heard: "And why do we need to know this? We're not contractors..."
Then the full member asked what students are currently studying in literature, history. It turns out that they study the work of Maupassant. And the history of the Great Patriotic War was completed in just four lessons. Is it necessary to be surprised by the answers of teenagers?
In his speech at the congress, Georgy Malinetsky did not restrain his emotions, directly calling the reformers of domestic education scoundrels. And those who, instead of the health of schoolchildren, think about the fashion for digitalization.
WHAT WAS DECIDED AT THE CONGRESS The congress gave fundamental assessments of what has been discussed in kitchens and corridors in recent years.
About the catastrophic decline in the quality of education and the level of education of graduates of schools and universities, as well as the massive deterioration in the health of students.
At the congress, problems were not just named, but their causes were analyzed: endless reformation in education, lack of scientific justification and safety assessment of pedagogical innovations imposed on parents, the introduction of test systems for assessing knowledge at school (unified state exam, state final certification, All-Russian verification work); the transition of higher education to the Bologna system.
Among the causes and consequences, the imposition of the participation of the younger generation in the global experiment on e-learning, distance learning technologies, and gamification was also mentioned. The involvement of children and adolescents in digital platforms and educational platforms is also dangerous, which creates prerequisites for the control of personal data using so-called individual development trajectories and digital profiles. The tendency to replace teachers with tutors, paper textbooks and student diaries with electronic ones is also recognized as harmful.
The Congress adopted a draft resolution including a detailed appeal with detailed proposals to the country's leadership and the State Duma. The main thing in it is the proposal to restore the sovereign governance of Russian education.
ALL EVIL FROM NUMBERS AND COMPUTERS are some of the suggestions:
– to amend the national project "Education" in order to stop the large–scale digitalization of schools and additional education, including the termination of the implementation of the project "Digital Educational Environment"; - to consider the resignation of the Minister of Education due to loss of confidence, as well as other persons from among the leadership of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education and Rosobrnadzor.
Put in front of the General Prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation the question of the examination of the legality of the project "Digital educational environment" and the imposition of certain elements of digital transformation;– to consolidate the Federal law of the Russian Federation "On education in Russian Federation" the concept and the guarantee of full-time study in the traditional form to prevent it from substitution of e-learning and(or) remote educational technologies;– to make the specific wording in the Federal legislation that "full-time study involves direct interaction between the teacher and the learner in the classroom without the use of e-learning and(or) distance learning technologies", and e-learning technologies in education – is a secondary tool for the implementation of additional possibilities, not learning;– to prohibit the use of test systems verify the knowledge of students and to ensure a return to the traditional form of inspection (exams training venue, ticket, made strictly in accordance with the passed students of the program);– in the traditional way without the use of the Internet and computers legislation to ensure students pass all certifications, exams, participation in all stages of the all-Russian Olympiad of schoolchildren;– legislation to guarantee the right of citizens to abandon e-learning and distance educational technologies (including in the conditions of state of emergency) and to make the stated purpose of the amendments in part 17 of article 108 of the Federal law "On education in the Russian Federation";– repealed amendments made to Federal law of December 30, 2021 "On amendments to the Federal law "On education in Russian Federation", which effectively legalized electronic resources as equal to traditional paper textbooks and mandate schools to create a digital environment for the processing of personal data of children in information systems;– to amend article 18 of the Federal law "On education in the Russian Federation" to ensure that children of textbooks in paper form;– to legislate the mandatory use of student journals on paper (as the only effective means of ensuring self-organization, self-control and motivation), as well as paper magazines of teachers for accounting student.
With UNESCO, WE ARE NOT ON THE PATH In the address of the Congress to the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education says that it is necessary to ensure Russia's withdrawal from UNESCO.
Participation in the activities of this structure contradicts the national interests of Russia, has a destructive effect on education.
It is necessary to work out a set of measures to withdraw the Russian Federation from the Bologna process with a return to the classical system of specialization (preventing the planting of individual trajectories, digital profiles of students and other projects for the management of Russian education and the youth socialization system from abroad). To stop implementing the recommendations of the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, UNESCO in the implementation of reforms in the field of education, including digitalization processes. Adopt legislative and organizational measures prohibiting the registration of children and adolescents in Internet portals and digital systems without the informed voluntary consent of parents. To ensure irreversible sanctions against officials who force parents to such registration.
There are a number of other proposals. For example, the Ministry of Education is recommended to terminate the agreement with the Russian Computer Sports Federation on the introduction of esports in schools, to stop its promotion (against the background of great risks to the health and development of children, taking into account the scientifically proven harm from computer games and provoking gambling addiction in children). Cancel the first e-sports festival, scheduled for 2022 and approved by the Ministry of Education, which provides for the participation of children from the age of 10 in computer games (which contains footage with torn out entrails, weapons, pouring blood, sexually accentuated poses, etc.).
It is recommended to prohibit automated checking of homework. The test should be carried out by live teachers with appropriate training and qualifications. The homework itself should be done on paper. It is necessary to stop the removal of biometrics of children, the introduction of facial recognition cameras and emotions in schools (for example, pilot projects in Perm, Novosibirsk).
There are recommendations to officials as well. It is necessary to exclude the assessment of their activities in the field of education, depending on the level of implementation of digitalization technologies. Cancel and stop the implementation of the "Passport of the strategy "Digital Transformation of Education". Cancel the strategic direction "Digital Transformation".
Finally, it is necessary to stop the introduction of the PFDO system (personalized financing of additional education) and provide free additional education for children within walking distance from home. Without limiting the number of clubs (sections) attended and without being forced to register on electronic portals as a condition of children's access to additional education.
CONCLUSIONS AND ASSESSMENTS will be repeated, these are not all recommendations, but only the most basic.
Time will tell which of them will be heard and approved.
But the importance of assessments and decisions of the Congress of Parent Organizations is already clear. Because it voiced ideas that had been floating in the minds of many parents for a long time, as well as in certain expert circles.
Sergey Pershutkin Sergey Nikolaevich Pershutkin is a full member of the Academy of Military Sciences, Doctor of Sociological Sciences; Oleg Valentinovich Falichev is a military observer.
