The last bit

Lame duck is a president who misses his last term. Everyone knows this. But what is the State Council called, an hour from an hour expecting a resignation? I don’t know, and so far I have not met reasonable or at least stable metaphors. And what to call the official, on his last working day making a fateful decision, I know, as well as the decision: the last cod of the gutted turkey.

When the whole country, finding the prime minister, who was interested, sighed and intended with relief, according to the Russian tradition, to celebrate the international gender holiday in one individual part of the land, an extraordinary event occurred - at that time the acting Minister of Education Mr. Filippov on his last working day signed a decree

"On approval of standards in the field of education." It happened on Friday March 5. A sort of bravura final chord of a minister career. Humanly, the motives of such a finale are understandable. Well, a person leaves, wants to leave a memory by himself, let, say, people remember that he was like that - the name - sowed the unreasonable, but eternal. And even then to say: for two years now, the ex -minister fought for these standards with the teacher’s opposition, and fought unsuccessfully, and the last two years with the public, and again failure. The public ministerial developments rejected loudly , the State Duma did not accept standards. The minister threatened the deputies several times, if they resist, he himself would accept, because popular happiness depends on it. He threatened seriously: “New standards of education, specialized training throughout the country will be introduced from September 1, 2006. The schedule of the phased update of education in Russia is very tough. It is very difficult to fulfill, but nevertheless we outlined this line. If the new standards are not accepted by the State Duma, they can be approved by the order of the Ministry of Education , and they will be called“ mandatory requirements for the minimum of the content of the formation. ” After the Duma, he even ordered the deputies to do business - to accept what was not accepted by their sluggish colleagues, and not to accept - he himself would sign a decree on the standards. I am a farewell cod.

It remains only to make sure that the newly appointed Minister of Education about clap and gestures of the predecessor will not forget and cancel them in time. And not because the offended public requires this, but because it is high time to stop reporting, but to do business. For example, to understand that children at school need to be taught to write and count correctly, and not just respond to the challenges of time.

Speaking seriously, the last four years that the reform of school education stems, we have heard off his throat reports - that no day, then the novelty is a dectic in the Education: then we “unload it, not throwing anything out of the program and introducing new objects”, we are computerizing schools in villages where there is no electricity, we are studying a foreign language from the diapers and we speak to the fifth grade as it. NATIVE SPEAKERS - True, the pollution is that there are not enough foreign language teachers before seizures - we teach patriotism, then we introduce “Citizenship” and “Social Studies” at the same time (to understand how these two subjects differ - apparently, for their authors, society exist separately from citizens, and citizens are isolated from society), we are not allowed from society), then we do not resolve it) Schoolchildren rise above the third floor, then we rewrite textbooks, then teach by old, but with new programs and methodological recommendations. And the end-string of these initiatives is not visible. Of the very fresh ones - introduce football as a separate school subject. On March ninth, the vice-president of the Russian Football Union Valery Droganov said that a group of State Duma deputies drew up a plan to “introduce football in Russian secondary schools”. And according to Mr. Droganov, who simultaneously heads the Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, it is possible that the popular game will be included in the school curriculum. Excluded! - Even despite the fact that football in Russia is more than a game. It is excluded not only because you can’t put everything that can be useful to a person in life - from a dill of socks to the law of God and omfalomania (fortune -telling on the navel), but also because for the formation of a basting , it is also to responsible for any initiative in education. It has long been known that the war is too serious to entrust it to the generals. Now in a civilized society they understand that the education system cannot be responsible for education. This is the responsibility of the whole society. And since we want to live in a civilized country, we must understand that we all are responsible for what is happening in schools, where our children study, what they are teaching and why. And most importantly - how and who. And it's time to stop talking with society about the education of the language of ultimatums - "it will be the way I decided."

They say that there is no more favorable sleep than the one where you are bogged down in the bog, since the dreams of all the sages of the Christian world say, you need to interpret in the opposite sense. Our school education - with all these footballs, standards, relations and ultimatums - in a quagmire already in the Makovka, and not in a dream, but in reality.