Odessa. Take children out of Ukraine
Tatyana Gerashchenko, journalist, Odessa
Calling the genocide of one’s own people “genocide” is somehow conscientious of the European Union. Is it a matter of “reform”? That’s how we started living in 2014 – with continuous reforms. You just don’t know which one will kill you first: from the health care reform, when a package of antibiotics is more expensive than a month’s salary, or from the housing and communal services reform, when the only thing that saves you from eviction for debt is that you are somewhere in the millionth place in a long line of debtors and they just haven’t reached you yet “lagidni doloni” of patriots.
But they will get there. And this is understandable. Or maybe the “new police” will protect you? What the hell!.. She doesn’t even know what she’s capable of yet. Her specialization is narrow - how to write in the protocol: “Bond or Bond?” What else they learn there in police academies besides the “Peacemaker” list is unknown.
And everywhere, no matter what sphere you spit in, this mass pestilence (aka “reform” of everything and everyone) is legally lame - no matter what the reform, it is a discrepancy with the Constitution. Uninterruptedly, around the clock, professionally and “according to the law”, even in Soviet traditions, when “Give a five-year plan in four years!”, only one “humanitarian” institution operates - crematoria. They smoke and smoke.
And then the school education reform arrived! Tell me, at least they don’t die from it? Who knows, who knows...
This is what we will talk about. The truth this time is not about total and mediocre Ukrainization - here the patient is just stable: just as it began with pots, beetroot, pigs and a barn, it has stalled. And from the secular? Well, perhaps the basics of hygiene are taught to little Ukrainians by “Doctor Pygulko,” known to the Russian-speaking world as Pilyulkin. But the point is different...
I'm telling you. In a month my child starts fourth grade. During the last three years of his studies, he was given basic textbooks for free at school. Which is very important, because “for the new program” each subject requires an additional set of waste paper - test notebooks, manuals, CDs, books (at the discretion of the teacher), which is paid for, and very, very expensive, and is becoming more expensive every year.
“And you, of course, may not buy your child waste paper, but this will affect his grade on the report card, and you are a responsible parent, right?” (“if they don’t take it, we’ll turn off the gas”, in fact, is the main postulate of the new Ukrainian training program). Although even without it, getting the child ready for school caused relatives to have strokes and heart attacks - here the whole world has to chip in for one semblance of school “uniform,” and in the current realities, it is simply impossible for ninety percent of the starving population of Ukraine to master the entire “gentleman’s kit” of a student.
Here you think - either buy a school uniform, or use this money to stock up on food for six months. Here is a situation where more and more often I remember my grandmother, who during the war wrote in the newspaper fields by candlelight when she was at school. So we are close, although many are “already”.
Therefore, free textbooks were another help in this school Hell, when you already had to pay to have your child turned into a zombie. After all, Ukrainians are so traditionally thrifty...
...So at the last parents' meeting we were told that in the current academic year schools will stop issuing even these crumbs - free textbooks. Parents are shocked: we ourselves just handed them over, some are in perfect condition, some have been glued up - we handed them over to the library for other children, will they be burned or destroyed? No: from now on, all free textbooks will be distributed - drum roll! (who knows, the Ukrainian anthem may howl) - exclusively among the children of ATO soldiers!!!
That's how they explained it to us. Neither large families, nor single mothers, nor beneficiaries of various kinds (and if you knew how many sick children there are now in schools - HIV and oncology here) are no longer entitled to free knowledge!
I really don’t know where to find so many ATO officers... unlike 99 percent of the poor. But the policy is correct - to show that they have privileges and benefits, because working in the “cleaning department” at the turn of the era has always been an honor - for the rest of us, it’s “corned beef in the canteen every day.”
And in order to give this event significance, I won’t be surprised that the remaining unclaimed books will start to be burned - this is Ukraine, kids!
At this point - forgive me - but I will once again clarify for my beloved, but, thank God, brothers far from our lives, who are always dissatisfied with Sobyanin’s tiles and the crookedly buried carousel on the playground, some nuances.
This is how our learning process happens. First, you either become an outcast because you have nothing to do with the ATO and you haven’t submitted your classroom for repairs, or you pay for everything to get rid of it, and by the new year you already end up in total starvation.
But more often it happens like this: schools are heated for the sake of formality at eight in the morning, so that parents don’t fuss, and then the heating is turned off, and with the onset of the first cold weather, you are no longer working for another unnecessary allowance in this or that subject, but for medicines and X-ray rooms, because children literally crawl out of the icy classrooms immediately with a temperature of 40.
In winter, we only think about how to survive!
And you are sitting at a parent meeting, thanking your Facebook friends for collecting antibiotics for the child this time, and remembering your “colleagues in misfortune”: here is the child’s grandmother (there is no one else), here is a mother with many children, who has no not three, but five children, here is a young man-father who covers his eyes with his hand in shame because he lost his job. Although, maybe tomorrow he will find something for payment of 50-100 dollars - and still will not pay for anything, he is still not an ATO officer (they don’t have to pay for anything).
There are wealthy types whom no local social security service would consider poor, but would happily take away a subsidy to pay for utilities. But I know how they suffer and just survive, hoping to at least survive until the child reaches adulthood.
As time goes on, more and more of my friends are really thinking about not sending their children to school at all. But there is a catch - secondary education, according to the Constitution, is not only free (three times ha!), but also compulsory... And to guarantee these two positions, as the defender of all the people, someone must... well, yes - this bag of crumpled fabric with the president inside .
I just went over this oxymoron again so that readers understand what the abolition of free textbooks means for the Ukrainian beggar.
The price for each such textbook is “from 90 UAH.” (according to the teacher), and that’s it for now. We should have nine textbooks (if nothing new is invented), and this is already 810 hryvnia (for understanding, about a quarter of the upcoming expenses only at the beginning of the year).
I'm scared for the 11th graders... Personally, I'm not going to take these books, come what may.
And all this is happening against the backdrop of the fact that since the spring everyone (the Odessa media for sure) has been full of headlines “Education reform in the Odessa region!” The message is positive. The Fuhrer by education has more than once called Odessa a pilot city, in whose schools the reform will be tested - she claims that soon all students will have to switch to tablets.
Although the journalists (and Maidan ones - others were neutralized in the leper territory) tried to object: “But many children have computers, and they don’t even have them!”, and she: “We will give them to those in need for free!” Children of ATO officers, of course. To “hurt” the journalists - they jumped on themselves.
I first saw this “mynytstrka” Liliya Grinevich on “Channel 5”, the most Nazi one, when some creature called on the air and howled like “Why do Russian language teachers speak Russian even during breaks.” And Grinevich first agreed with this “lawlessness”, and then complained that the SBU was not working well.
Well, why is it bad, if even in my memory the fate of a lot of normal teachers was ruined. In general, cases of dismissal for “nothing” are constant, and the most recent one that has spread throughout the media is when an employee of a school library in the Izmail district of the Odessa region was fired for giving schoolchildren textbooks from 1990 in the Russian language. But there are no others! After all, they confiscated others themselves - for the children of the ATO!..
“Do you ignore common sense on principle or do you have a personal dislike for it?” Figwam! All this is purposeful - book collections are destroyed, exchanged for one-day-by-bryaskaltsya - and even those are only for the children of ball-killers, so that they then, naturally, on preferential terms at universities, breed, and then become overseers, mocking the survivors.
And everything goes according to plan - compulsory and free secondary education is controlled by the guarantor of the constitution! They work well there, we underestimate them. They are just thieves and they dilute dichlorvos with donkey urine, and only this does not allow them to finish us off right away, but are forced to present outright genocide under the sauce of “reforms” - in all spheres, everywhere.
Globally, this is the destruction of the basis of the Soviet education system, which can be found fault in the current conditions (it did not include tablets), but which was considered one of the best in the world.
Along the way, every winter we also have to donate (knit?) socks and mittens for ATO soldiers, and instead of flowers on September XNUMXst we are ordered to carry soap, powder and other care products for ATO soldiers. This is also recommended for poor children who do not have money for winter shoes... I just want to add “and rope” to the list with soap - either for them or for us. There will be no other...
What can I say here... PolitNavigator columnist Valentin Filippov is simply right, who, wherever he can, simply shouts: “Take the children out of Ukraine.” Simply right.
English version :: Read in English: Odessa. Take your children out of Ukraine.