The SRHR faction held a round table on education issues

At the round table of the faction “A Just Russia – For Truth”, held this Monday, parliamentarians and experts raised issues of patriotic education, the psycho-emotional state of teachers and students, the responsibility of parents and the bureaucratization of the educational process. However, perhaps the most pressing topic predictably turned out to be payment for the hard work of teaching. Moreover, without proper funding, the educational work entrusted to schools is likely to sag, the speakers warned.

“A lot has already been done,” moderator, deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Education Yana Lantratova opened the discussion. Among the latest achievements, the politician mentioned the abandonment of the term “educational service” and the return of the educational function to schools. But, Ms. Lantratova warned, there is even more work ahead. The contours of the latter were supposed to form several dozen participants round table.

Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Youth Policy Vladimir Isakov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) diplomatically noted the impressive performance of the deputies, but admitted that he “has questions about the content.” The communist complained about the low semantic content of patriotic events and concluded that for the sake of high quality education, “it is necessary to firmly raise the issue of teachers.” Or more precisely, about their wages. According to Mr. Isakov, in order to attract the best to this work, it is necessary to establish a fixed workload and a minimum salary for them “at least two times the minimum wage.”

SRZP Chairman Sergei Mironov was even more generous: “At least 200% of the average salary in a subject of the federation should be a teacher’s salary!”

At the same time, teachers should be given the status of civil servants, Mr. Mironov believes. Spravoross also proposed getting rid of paid education in state universities, abolishing the Unified State Exam, and eliminating the methodology of the Bologna system – unnecessary, alien and harmful – completely. “The process has begun, but this is only the beginning of the journey,” the politician warned his comrades.

IN LDPRIt seems that they are tired of the endless changes and aspirations of their colleagues. “In the year of the teacher and mentor, it was necessary to introduce a moratorium on changes,” called on Deputy Speaker of the Duma Boris Chernyshov. “Stop experiments, stop mocking teachers, parents and children: nothing will change significantly, but people will become calmer.” However, subsequently the Liberal Democrat returned to the given reformist line and proposed introducing a single base salary for teachers, conditions for them to travel to resorts, and at the same time a postgraduate travel card.

And here “New people” unexpectedly moved away from financial issues. Instead, the first deputy chairman of the committee on higher education, Ksenia Goryacheva, focused on the “psychosocial well-being of students and teachers.” “It is impossible to love your homeland, profession, people if you get up every morning and are not very happy about this morning,” she reasoned.

The round table still lacked an explicit and openly expressed position on the ideological component. This gap was filled by Deputy Speaker of the Duma Anna Kuznetsova (United Russia).

“We care what our children believe in,” she recalled the president’s thesis and proposed three thematic improvements that sounded less ideological than bureaucratic: in terms of quality control of educational work, creation of appropriate content and rehabilitation of children affected by involvement in destructive groups. “High-quality educational work is the key to answering the question of what our children will believe in,” the vice speaker pointed out.

But the social activists, teachers and experts who came after them ultimately reduced educational work to money. “We talk about educational work, but we don’t talk about how to finance it,” lamented the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, Alexei Kozyrev, to the applause of the audience. “We are siphoning off funds for student events, and if this is a trip… There will be no patriotic education until our children They won’t be able to travel around the country!” The teachers themselves, according to the director of CHIRO Andrei Barabas, also call the salary increase one of the most necessary innovations – among others: increased responsibility for insulting a teacher (as well as the media for creating a negative image of a teacher), the provision of sanatorium-resort treatment and the status of a civil servant.

There may be no one to introduce all these innovations, warned teacher Marina Vasilyeva: “Teachers at school are an exhausted resource.”

The teacher recommended introducing work placements for state-funded graduates, as well as “bringing back teachers who left”: “There are two ways – a decent salary and (resolved.— “Kommersant”) housing issue.” “Some minister said: you can’t raise salaries, because they will go to school for the money, and not for the idea,” the speaker smiled sadly and immediately clearly calculated that out of her 28 thousand (0.75 of the rate) she had clean hands ten remain (you have to subtract for paper and cartridges for the school printer).

Yana Lantratova promised to forward all resolutions received during the round table to the leaders of the factions and to the relevant departments.

Grigory Leiba