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Shooting at school
In April 1689, the 24-gun French ship Serpan was attacked by the Dutch off the coast of France. The battle ensued, all the more unpleasant that the Serpan was loaded with barrels of gunpowder and could take off into the air at any time. The twelve -year -old Jung, who was on the ship, tried to hide behind the mast in horror, and the captain, noticing this, ordered him to be tied to the mast. “Who does not know how to look into the eyes of death,” said the captain, “is not worthy of life.” The captain was called Jean Bar, it was the famous French Corsair, and the twelve-year-old Jung was called Francois-Kornil Bar, and it was his son.
What am I going to?
Sergei Gordeev, a student of the 10th grade of school No. 263, came to a lesson with a gun and shot the geography teachers Andrei Kirillov, and then, when they tried to detain him, police officer Sergei Bushuev. Gordeev from a family of high -ranking FSB workers, an unsociable excellent student, apparently fanatically believing, constantly spoke about Orthodoxy and ridiculed other religions (he was forced to teach religious books at home), wrote stories about super -speed, and on the eve of the crime threw a friend from Hans Christian on the “Facebook” Andersen: “A thoughtful atheist living in good conscience does not understand how close to God is. Because he creates good, not expecting a reward, unlike believers of hypocrites. ” A friend did not support the conversation and asked what was asked in chemistry.
This tragedy gave rise to some unprecedented number of comments. Vladimir Putin said that in order to prevent this, "it is necessary to educate a new generation with a good artistic taste." Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin promised to check security in schools and re -quest school psychologists. Society, for its part, also distinguished itself. “A shot from a gun is a scream to the end of a desperate child to be heard as a jump from the roof,” psychologist Julia Hippenreiter said on Rain. “It is because of their ( parents ) of overstated demands that Sergey formed a“ excellent student complex, ” said Elena Mikhailova at Echo. Well, etc. The poor boy was "memorized", did not understand. In general, now there is such a load of study on children, and this is all a consequence of the bloody regime.
Listen, gentlemen, what are you talking about? There is no soil for political or sociological comments. This story is purely criminal, such as those that are full of American television channels or Russian newspapers of the late XIX century. This can happen anywhere - from Arkansas to China. And “conclusions” and “lessons” cannot be extracted here.
What to do? To teach "good artistic taste"? So the boy with the syndrome of the excellent student will quarrel even earlier and grab the gun. To plant "school psychologists" everywhere? We and teachers do not have enough good. Put the guards everywhere? Yeah, this is the same as after an accident due to the refusal brakes to issue a decree that from now on any car can leave the yard no earlier than the traffic police inspector.
To reduce the load on poor misunderstood kids, as the psychologist Julia Hippenreiter suggests, which sets an example of Norway, where, until the 5th grade in schools, they do not give assessments at all? What about individual responsibility? Human responsibility for what he did?
In a striking way, the power that immediately requires “ensure” and “check”, and the part of the public that begins to write that the child was “memorized”, “forced” that it was “his cry of despair,” they close in one place. Both those and others deny individual responsibility.
The fact that the student shot the teacher is guilty of anyone, but not himself. And this denial of individual responsibility is one of the worst signs of modern society in general. Every time there is a pogrom, a terrorist attack or a crime, questions immediately arise: what else to adjust this? And how else do we, poor, can help?
Meanwhile, the most central in man is free will. And freedom of will means that some people will be mistaken. Commit crimes. That in their soul something will break irreparably. Not because “the environment was overwhelmed”, “parents memorized” or “bloody regime” - but simply because there is a person. And I must answer for what I did.
And do not talk about the “unbearable load of responsibility” lying on the shoulders of a prosperous student of the 10th grade of the Moscow school. It is no coincidence that this column began with the story of the twelve -year -old Yung, tied to the mast by order of my father during the battle. Something I have a suspicion that Jean Bar asked his son even stricter than the Moscow Ephesians from his own-and nothing, Francois-Kornil grew up and even became vice-admiral of the French fleet.
In any modern book on education, you will read the sacramental phrase: “In the Middle Ages there was no concept of childhood. Children were treated as small adults. ” Or maybe it's right? Maybe children should be treated as small adults? And then adults in forty and fifty years will not behave like young children, and with every crime or a terrorist attack to ask questions: who is to blame for this? What else to strengthen, provide and adjust? And how else do we, poor criminal, help us?