When there is no agreement among comrades

The strike at RGTEU, as well as the adoption of the law “On Education,” were drowned in general lamentations about the fate of orphans who do not end up on the blessed island of freedom. Both events were unable to interrupt the artificial information shaft erected by the liberal public.

It's a pity. The strike at RGTEU was instructive in certain aspects.

Spiteful critics wrote on the Internet that the speech was inspired by the leadership of the university, presenting it almost as a criminal conspiracy.

Well, who agrees, but in my opinion, if everything happened like that, then this phenomenon is rather positive. Why? Yes, because this is the first sign of consolidated action among students and teaching staff, students and management.

Usually all these three pillars of education end up being separated. And this division is a conscious policy in recent years.

Look how carefully the Ministry of Education articulates the fact that not a single student will suffer in the process of optimizing the university system.

In principle, I believe, no one will suffer, except for the fact that the inscription on the diploma will change (one university instead of another, a branch of the university instead of the university itself, etc.). There is no point in worrying at all for students if they are only interested in the formal aspect - having a piece of paper and calmly graduating from any, but most importantly, a higher educational institution.

Another thing is teachers - these eternal friends/enemies of students. Their prospects are unenviable; in the process of reduction, they will suffer first of all, since the scissors will be cut not so much in the number of students, but in the volume of the teaching load and curriculum. Not all of them will survive optimization.

The same is true with the majority of university management staff, which will turn out to be redundant. This is the very case when Bolivar cannot stand two. Why does a new university need two rectors, backup vice-rectors, deans, etc.?

From this point of view, the threat of a university losing its independence, in fact, the cessation of its existence, is something that should unite the management and ordinary teachers in the struggle for the survival of the university, destroying their class confrontation artificially created in the last decade, generated by a glaring income gap.

However, what can truly unite students, teachers and management is not even the fight to preserve the university, but the fight for genuine, real education, the rejection of the educational insanity and nonsense that educational bureaucrats produce year after year.

Moreover, this struggle does not necessarily have to be of a strike nature. Or maybe not at all necessary. A strike is just that, PR, an outlet of emotions, a cry of one crying in the wilderness. The struggle must be expressed in a constant critical analysis of the existing state of affairs, in the creation of an effective, influential public opinion that will not simply express subjective dissatisfaction, but will look for ways to bring educational policy into order.

Now everyone is still separated and speaks different languages: parents, schoolchildren, teachers, heads of educational institutions. And as you know, “when there is no agreement among the comrades, their business will not go well.”

We need the consolidation of healthy forces, and above all those who are really interested in improving our education, who well understand the essence of our troubles and problems, who are able to offer genuine, and not imitation, ways out of the current situation.