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Dear colleagues!

With the entry into force of the Law "On Education in Russian Federation"The question arose about providing students with teaching aids, including workbooks. At whose expense should they be purchased? Should they be purchased at the expense of subventions and taken into account in the library fund?

Anna Usacheva, Director of the Information Policy Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, said that the issue of providing schoolchildren with workbooks was legally regulated: study guides provided to students free of charge during the course.

As the head of the department explained, the law "On Education in the Russian Federation" clearly indicates that students are provided free of charge for use during the period of education, textbooks and teaching aids, as well as educational and methodological materials, training and education tools. The school independently determines the list of teaching aids necessary for the study of any subject.

"If the school administration includes a specific workbook on a printed basis to the list of teaching aids used in educational activities, which is approved by the order of the school principal, then, of course, this workbook should be provided at the expense of the budget", - RIA Novosti quotes the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The ministry explained that the teacher has the right recommend, For example, as part of additional study, certain benefits that may not be included in the list by the educational organization."However, if they are not purchased at the expense of federal funds, the administration of a general educational organization is not entitled to require parents to purchase them obligatory,"- the message says.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation considered the issue of issuing free workbooks to schoolchildren at the suggestion of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. The reason was the appeals of the parents of schoolchildren about the violation of the rights of children to education in connection with the failure of educational organizations to provide them with free workbooks. Recall that this year in Kaliningrad, the prosecutor filed a lawsuit in the interests of a schoolboy against educational institution. The parents of the first-grader considered the purchase of workbooks at their own expense a violation of the child's right to public and free education. The school has proven otherwise.

Dear colleagues! Thus, at the expense of subventions, those textbooks (including workbooks) that are included in the list of textbooks used in the educational process (there must be an order for the school) are purchased and taken into account in the library fund. Please note that in the educational process, textbooks published by publishers included in the List of Publishers may be used.

On December 29, one school in Ryazan banned the use of workbooks in the classroom.
On the same evening, one of the mothers was removed from the school chat, declaring a boycott.
Thus began the struggle of the school against another objectionable parent.
But, as in many other cases, the school itself remained on the sidelines, inciting the parent committee against the "very smart" mom.

And it all started quietly.
In the spring, when the class began to collect money for workbooks, this mother decided to find out what is included in the teaching materials ( educational kit), which was to be dealt with in the coming year.
I sent a request to the school and received a response.

I translate: the CMC will be formed in August, but already in May it is necessary (optional, of course!) buy a certain set of workbooks with your own money.
That is, the school could not say whether there would be notebooks in the teaching staff, but already offered to buy them.

Mom was amazed at such impudence.
Of course, I didn’t buy notebooks, but I started sending letters above.
As a result, by the end of the year I received this answer:

It would seem that here it is - the finish line. Everything, the answer is received.
Painted in black and white:the director was told that the use of workbooks is inadmissible, since they are not in the teaching materials.
But no.
In our country, sometimes it is not the response of a higher authority that is important, butTHAT MANwho brought this answer to the masses.
In this case, brought itteacher. And it was like this:

(The first message is from the teacher)

I will note the starting message of the previous screen: “in connection with the complaint of the parents of one of the students", but not according to a letter from S.V. Merinova - acting head of departmenteducation and youth policy of Ryazan.
Although the second option is the only correct one under the circumstances.
He would not only dismiss the unnecessary questions of the parents, but also avoid the negative in the direction of the initiator of the letter. But the teacher did it differently by accident or on purpose.

The development of the situation followed immediately. Scattering and vacillation among the masses began.
While one parent is calmly trying to find out if this rule applies to all classes, the second is already panicking and is ready to create a counterclaim against the rebel parent.

In any classroom, there is a parent who believes that the lack of workbooks (new laminate, false ceiling, interactive whiteboard, the list goes on) immediately throws students back to the Stone Age.

The teacher, I note, continues to escalate the situation, they say,in our class there is such an unfortunate parent, and therefore our unfortunate class suffers.

And then immediately the question is: “Why?”

Dear School Principal!
Where did you see in the letter the order to cancel classes on workbooksONLY IN ONE CLASS?
I know that you are reading this, so I beg you: study the answer of the department of education again and be so kind as to do what is prescribed in it:
refuse to study on workbooks that are not in the TMC,in all classrooms!
In all where workbooks are not included in the teaching materials.

Go ahead.
The teacher immediately adds:in parallel classes do not complain".
Actually, by this he once again emphasizes: when this outcast is gone, then we will live, comrade parents!
And the “correct” parents immediately respond to the teacher’s signal:

And again, the teacher’s message appears in the last screen: “I understand your indignation.”
Apparently, the teacher still did not see the letter.
Otherwise, why would he deliberately go against the law, but support the primitive attitudes of his parents to “teach a lesson” to a parent who lives by the law?

And here it is already clear that the head teacher did not show the letter to the teacher (otherwise the teacher would have read and understood that the parent had nothing to do with it at all).

Then who is the initiator of the persecution of the parent?
Is it a head teacher?
Had he deliberately left the young teacher out of the letter?

Maybe you forgot?
But for some reason, I didn’t forget to say that the cancellation of workbooks will happendue to parent's complaint.
Not because the school had previously broken the rules andstudied according to workbooks MANDATORY illegallybut simply because of a parent's complaint.

Dear head teacher!
I know that you read me too.
Please show the letter to the teacher and explain thatthe school corrects its mistakes.
Their! There would be no complaint from this parent - there would be a complaint from another.
It's not the parent, it's the school's mistake.

“How can 1 person make a decision in 28? Rave".

Completely agree with the quote.
No one person can make a decision for everyone, unless this decision is a decision of a higher authority.
But for some reason, parents do not have time to think about it.

So, because of the principle of a broken phone, this situation has developed, which is not at all in favor of one of the parents.

The chain looked like this:
The director received a letter from the Department of Education
- told the head teacher that workbooks should be canceled because of the “special parent”
- the head teacher told the teacher that we were canceling workbooks from the next half of the year because of “you know who”
- the teacher freaked out and dumped on her parents that “one of us, I won’t point a finger” nevertheless made sure that workbooks were banned from us
- parents said: atu her !!! crucify and remove from the chat, and then from the school.

Or there was another chain:
The director received the letter and realized that the parents would riot if they found out what was written in it. Of course, they will, because the director herself convinced the parents in the spring that workbooks are necessary, and now she will have to convince the parents of the opposite. A hitch! And if they find out in other classes, then it will come to the prosecutor's office (or even to Channel One - we have such brave mothers, pickets are arranged and TV is invited!).

The director told the head teacher: do whatever you want, but blame everything on the objectionable parent! Come on work! Press on the teacher, "piss" the upstart with your hands parent committee! But fast! Preferably before the new semester.

The head teacher told the teacher: if you do not expel the objectionable parent in the coming days, you will be left without work. Set up a parent committee as your allies, put pressure on “this is all for your children”, “children will be left without knowledge, and knowledge is only in workbooks”, do anything, but quickly, very quickly! You have a chat room, talk there nicely and understandingly! Take action! And we will help you as much as we can.

And the last link, the teacher, does everything according to instructions. And where should she go?

This is how it happens with us. And it is not so important, the first chain was in action or the second. One thing is clear: to overcome lawlessness in schools, one person cannot cope.
Let's support each other dear parents.

Let's not be afraid to ask and write letters to the Department of Education.

Let's repost this post.
As strong as possible.
Know: somewhere now there is a parent who googles: “how to get free workbooks from the school”, “do you need workbooks at school”, and Google does not give him anything on the road.

Let's upvote this post and tell our friends about it. As far as we can.
And this will be our New Year's gift to ourselves.

"I am responsible for the words that I pronounce throughout the country" - said Minister of Education at the All-Russian Parents' Meeting. V live Olga Vasilyeva answered the questions of parents from different regions. We have selected the most interesting theses from her speech.

1. Parents do not need to donate money for workbooks. The school should buy them for free

Maxim Dvortsov, Chairman of the Parent Committee of School No. 176 in Nizhny Novgorod, asked a question about school fees for textbooks and workbooks: “Everyone knows that fees are unacceptable, but is there any regulation on this issue?” Vasilyeva answered unequivocally: schools are obliged to purchase workbooks and give them to students free of charge.

“I hear questions about these notebooks all the time. I'm talking to school leaders. Colleagues, regional and municipal managers, since 2015, workbooks have been included in the mandatory purchase of the school. I am responsible for the words that I now pronounce live to the whole country.”

2. Children in family education have the same benefits as ordinary students

Elena Masyuk from Tyumen complained to the Minister of Education that children in family education do not have many benefits: for example, preferential travel on city and railway transport. They also cannot participate in federal competitions and olympiads. According to Elena, only children who study in educational organizations. In response, the minister said that children who study at home have the same legal status as any student who receives it within the walls of the school.

“I want to explain how it should be. There are two forms of home schooling: external study and home schooling. Let's say a parent chooses a form for an external student. In this case, you can attach to the school. If a child is attached to a certain school, then nothing prevents him from taking part in the Olympiad. A child who is studying as an external student is entitled to all benefits, including preferential travel on suburban railway transport.

As for the home system. There is a direct attachment to the school: teachers visit the child at home and a remote form is possible, which is now being worked out. A child is attached to a school and has the same rights as children who study at school.”

3. The Ministry will allocate money for research on child physiology

When answering a question about the six-day school week, Vasilyeva said that in Russia in recent decades, research on child physiology has not been conducted, and this should be corrected. Therefore, within national project“Education” will allocate large sums for them.

“We need research. The influence of the Internet on kids and not just kids. How long can a child sit while working with gadgets. How much is needed so that it does not harm his health. What is really happening, what else, besides dysgraphia, contributes to the impossibility of easy and quick assimilation of the material.

In the past few decades, for various reasons, large-scale research on child physiology has not been conducted. Which should never be. Because without it, you can't move. In general, pedagogy is a science, and everything that contributes to its development must be developed.

4. In Russia, 1% of teacher vacancies

There were no questions about average age teachers. Sergei Romanov asked: who will teach our children in 8-10 years, if the average age of a teacher is 45-50 years old? Vasilyeva suggested that Sergei is still very young and young, since he asks such questions, in fact, 45 years is the heyday. However, the ratio of young and experienced teachers is now 50/50 and there are very few vacancies.

“Today, across the country (for each region the situation may be different: somewhere worse, somewhere better) we have 1% of teacher vacancies.”

June 9 marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian teacher of mathematics, Leonty Magnitsky. The forerunner of the brilliant Lomonosov, he left his native Ostashkov with a convoy to deliver fish to the monks of the Nilo-Stolobenskaya desert, and stayed to study, then entered the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. A peasant son, who was "a passionate hunter to read and disassemble the tricky and difficult", since childhood "fed himself by the work of his hands" and, no doubt, the mind, who taught at the Navigation School for almost 40 years, created the famous textbook "Arithmetic, that is, the science of numerals" .. A detailed history of the great teacher and associate of Peter the Great's educational reforms is in the article by Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Mikhail Boguslavsky.

The teaching dynasty of the Kostyukovs began with Antonina Andreevna. For 37 years, she, a teacher of Russian language and literature, the director of a rural school, devoted herself to her profession. Today Antonina Andreevna has two children, five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter. The son is a physical education teacher with 30 years of experience, two grandchildren are graduates of the Voronezh Pedagogical University, the wife of one of the grandchildren worked in kindergarten senior educator, and now a methodologist ... About big and interesting life path founders of the glorious pedagogical dynasty, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, in the material of Tatyana Maslikova.

"My mission as a parent is to raise my daughters as worthy successors to our dynasty. And as for the profession, I see my mission in both delighting the public with our performances and positioning the circus as an art. In our society, spiritual priorities are opposed by consumer priorities. Sometimes you hear that art, as it were, is not needed, it has little effect on people's lives. But it is art that makes a person a person in many ways. It pulls some strings of the soul, calls for reflection, reflection on life, "- from an interview with a representative famous circus dynasty in the fourth generation, people's artist of the Russian Federation, artistic director of the Great Moscow Circus Askold Zapashny.

From next year, many Russian schools introduce a ban on the use of individual workbooks. These allowances are declared evil, detrimental to creativity child. Teachers, in turn, are encouraged to develop alternative teaching methods in their lessons. However, what they should consist of is not yet absolutely clear to either teachers or parents. This innovation is due to the fact that after parents complained about extortion, the Ministry of Education clarified that all required literature the school must purchase, and parents can purchase additional voluntarily. As a result, workbooks for most subjects were not only recognized as optional, but they were generally decided to be banned - out of harm's way.

No money: schools began to ban workbooks
Recall that for several years in a row, parents of schoolchildren from different regions of Russia complained that they were forced to buy various teaching aids, in particular workbooks, which are paired with the majority modern textbooks. After the intervention of the prosecutor's office, the Ministry of Education clarified that the purchase of compulsory allowances is the responsibility of the school, and parents are not obliged to purchase additional books and can only do this own will. However, after the scandal, many educational institutions chose not to take risks and simply prohibit teachers from using workbooks in class.

In our class, buying workbooks at our own expense suited everyone, - says the mother of a second-grader from the Moscow region. - We bought only what we really need, and it was very inexpensive. However, at the last meeting, we were told that the teacher was not allowed to use any materials purchased by the parents in the classroom. This prohibition is valid even if the entire class signs a protocol of voluntary consent to their acquisition. The position of the school is now such that they will buy everything they need themselves, and if they don’t buy it, then we don’t need it. We were told that of all the subjects, it was decided to provide schoolchildren with workbooks only for English language. This means that there will be no workbooks for other subjects from next year. Now, it turns out, in order to maintain the level of preparation in Russian and mathematics, we ourselves will have to additionally work with children at home. As usual, no one is interested in our opinion and the opinion of teachers, we are already tired of endless experiments on children, when at first something is actively imposed, and then it is sharply forbidden. In the current situation, there are rumors that the run over of workbooks is due to the promotion trend. e-learning when all textbooks will be posted electronically. It’s just that hardly anyone is going to provide for the purchase of educational tablets for all students, so again we’ll go in a vicious circle.

Of course, there are many parents among those who are extremely happy about the slow but sure eradication of workbooks from Russian educational institutions.

I'm glad that they finally decided to abolish these useless benefits or at least limit their use, - says the mother of a fifth-grader from Yekaterinburg. - The fact is that we were forced to buy a huge amount of actually completely unnecessary manuals, including music and fine arts, which then were practically not used and gathered dust in the closet. In addition, after the appearance of workbooks, many teachers stopped working with children in ordinary ones at all, this is especially true. elementary school. As a result, many children write very slowly and clumsily, because they do not rewrite the task completely, but simply insert the desired answer into the manual. Among other things, in last years the sale of various notebooks and manuals has clearly turned into a very profitable business for their manufacturers. According to many parents, the prices for them were pretty high, especially for residents of regions where salaries are much lower than in the same capital.

On condition of anonymity, the director of one of the schools near Moscow told us why the administrations of educational institutions decided to completely ban educational literature purchased at the expense of parents:

“It was clearly explained to us that the purchase of workbooks with parents' money should be strictly voluntary. But even a protocol of consent to their purchase, signed by all parents, does not guarantee the school that someone will not later complain to the top and state that they signed this document under duress. There have already been such cases, they turned out in the end big problems for both administration and teachers. Therefore, we decided that in the classroom, teachers will work with children only on the basis of the allowances that the school has purchased. In our educational institution we are not going to completely abandon workbooks. For those subjects in which they are really needed, as in foreign language for example, they will be purchased next year by the educational institution.”

We found out from an elementary school teacher with 30 years of experience Natalia Morozova about whether it is worth completely abandoning workbooks, what more they brought to modern schoolchildren, harm or benefit:

“To be honest, almost all the time I work at school, some kind of experiments are being done on children and teachers, every change begins with changes. academic year. In fact, a competent teacher can turn almost any innovation to the benefit of schoolchildren. Of course, workbooks were also useful, provided they were used judiciously. The fact is that the current program is very rich, you need to have time to master much more material than before. The workbooks helped the children save time by filling in the answer in the printed manual instead of rewriting the entire task in the notebook. Naturally, this did not affect any creative development of schoolchildren, if the teacher was not limited only to this form of work.

Against the thoughtless abolition of workbooks at the moment is also the fact that the school chooses a textbook of a certain publishing house for each subject. But training and metodology complex(TMC) discipline includes not only a textbook, but, as a rule, a workbook and other manuals necessary for a complete and successful mastering of the subject. As a result, when some of the benefits are banned, a very strange situation arises: the schools themselves have chosen a certain teaching and learning manual, and then they begin to tear it to pieces: we buy these textbooks, these are not, but it turns out to be nonsense. I wouldn’t be surprised if now teachers are offered to print out leaflets from workbooks and distribute them to schoolchildren, but we already went through all this before the mass introduction of workbooks. Of course, all such situations are due to the economy that constantly operates in relation to our education, no matter what anyone says. Teachers are now forbidden to ask parents to buy anything, but what if we are not given the required amount of paper for printers or whiteboard markers. Some teachers have long been buying the most necessary things with their own money, as they have simply been driven into a vicious circle.”