Hogwarts in Russian

The director of school No. 1308, Andrei Kudoyarov, accused of taking a bribe, died in the pre-trial detention center. He was accused by someone Evgeny Levin, whose son, Gleb, will have to bear not very light karma: after all, because of him, a person died.

The story is familiar. Kudoyarov allegedly extorted 300 thousand rubles from Mr. Levin, a businessman, for his son’s admission to school. Levin turned to the cops, and they recorded the extortion process. True, the actual process is missing from the recording: Levin brings 240 thousand rubles in cash to the office, and Kudoyarov sends him away with the words that, they say, go to the security guard, he will give the money to the caretaker, and with this money they will repair the toilets.

From the forums it follows that school No. 1308 is a) public, b) very good, c) from the moment of its founding, its permanent leader and inspirer was Andrei Kudoyarov. There was a fund at the school.

I’m not a particular supporter of the thesis “if you killed me, it means you’re not guilty.” For example, I did not write anything about the death in the pre-trial detention center of Vera Trifonova. In the end, this woman was accused of trading a position in the Federation Council with an accomplice, without having access to the goods. Still, in the case of Trifonova, the question arises: what if she cheats and sells posts, she’s healthy, but like in a pre-trial detention center, she’s sick? Well, that is, it is clear that a person in a pre-trial detention center will go from healthy to sick, and from sick to very sick. So what if it is not the healthy person who is cheating, but the sick person - is he immune?

But here is a completely different case, because Kudoyarov fell victim to the deliberate, disgusting hypocrisy of our educational system.

You cannot create a good school with budget money. Good teachers will not teach for budget money. The budget program is deliberate obscenity. This means that the school must have a fund. This means that the director will manage the money from this fund. And since the fund is illegal, how the director will use this money is up to him to decide.

And purely theoretically, you can stand up and say: no, the director must buy the latest gadgets and pay teachers triple salaries, but he himself must live on one salary in a one-room apartment with three children.

Sorry, that doesn't happen.

That is, school principals are faced with a simple dilemma: if they want to teach children well, they must be criminals.

This whole story stems from deliberate hypocrisy and nonsense.

It is hypocrisy and nonsense that education is the most valuable thing in life. Except maybe for health. Wealthy (and not so wealthy) people are willing to pay huge amounts of money for education—including secondary education, and even primarily secondary education. And they tell us: secondary education should be free for everyone.

You will tell me: poor children will not be able to pay for education! It's not fair!

And I’ll answer the question with a question: is it fair that the rich don’t pay for education (theoretically)? In principle, this is absolute nonsense when there is a wealthy person who is ready to pay for his child, and this child studies for free, taking away not so much budget money that could be spent on other children.

The money that parents are willing to pay for their child’s education, but legally cannot, they pay illegally. For what? For the sake of hypocrisy?

Second. It should upset the public: what has no price has no value. This is the main reason for the degradation of the modern education system. In Europe in the 19th century. or in China now people clearly see how much education costs. For them, studying is work. Work for a bright future.

For a significant portion of modern schoolchildren, studying is stupid. And school is a place from which you need to run away, escape, get lost, to sniff glue in the park or play football. “What the hell is this school for? Everything in the world, even a dose of high, costs money, but this damn school costs nothing.” And then we wonder why children turn out - if their parents are rich - to be wasters of life, if the poor are lumpen.

The absence of an elite secondary education system in the country is the same as if Muggles were sent to Hogwarts to study. Because of universal equality. And since the majority are Muggles, they would quickly explain to both wizards and teachers that only idiots and weirdos learn to cast magic, and the right thing to do is to mock teachers and sniff glue.

All of the above applies not only to Russia, but also to Europe, which, with the exception of England, has completely socialist canons in education, not only secondary, but also higher. It is in the USA and Great Britain that there are elite universities - and all the others, but in Europe everything, in general, is smooth and everything is a swamp.

You will tell me with horror: do I really demand an elite education system? Yes of course. Why not? There are specialized sports schools - and they will not accept children with poor health; specialized music schools - and they will not accept children without hearing (for example, me).

But when it comes to physics, mathematics, and everything that moves civilization forward, there are either no such schools, or almost none, or their existence is somehow bashfully hushed up.

Why? They should be. If the parents are wealthy and the child is suitable for the school, he should be able to study at an elite school for money. If a child is poor but talented, he should have a public opportunity to receive a scholarship for education - from the state or private individuals. Among other things, the system of “universal” education deprives talented but poor children of the opportunity to get into an elite school simply because there are no scholarships for paying a bribe.

Finally, if a child is talented but goes to a mediocre school in a bad area, he should be able to understand that school is not just about a bully sniffing glue in the toilet. He must know that if he passes the tests, he will leave this school for the normal world.

We have a system of helping sick children. We do not have a system for helping talented children. It was in the USSR. Now she's gone. As a result, a child from a poor family with a terrible diagnosis at least theoretically has a chance of treatment. Good people will raise money for it. A child from a poor family, but not diagnosed with leukemia, but a mathematical genius, has a hundred out of a hundred chances that he will be ditched in the school toilet by rednecks - because he is different and, you see, wants to learn. And then this system will be proudly called the “equal opportunity” system.

Hogwarts was not closed to the poor and Muggle children. But Hogwarts was not open to everyone.

In Europe, false equality leads to simplification and degeneration of the education system. In Russia, this false equality, in addition to the degeneration of the system, leads to the fact that every director who wants to teach children well becomes a criminal.

I don’t know whether the late Andrei Kudoyarov was the Russian Dumbledore, whether he was as selfless as his colleagues say, and whether he lived in a one-room apartment with three children. But I know that in Russia the director of Hogwarts would have been imprisoned.