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Kindergarten "Lessons of Kindness"
Much has been said about educational extortion in Volgograd, probably no less than about corruption itself. But for some reason, donating money to renovate a school classroom for your beloved child or to buy a gift for a teacher for a kindergarten graduation (!) is not considered corruption in Russia. However, how money is spent on repairs, gifts, excursions in educational institutions is often of no interest to educational leaders, regulatory authorities, or even the parents themselves, who strained themselves and submitted a voluntary mandatory contribution to...
And the Russian ingenuity will come up with what to donate the money for. So, for example, in Volgograd kindergartens almost weekly they collect modest sums of 70-80 rubles from parents for a certain puppet theater affectionately called “Lessons of Kindness,” but what preschoolers are taught in these lessons remains a mystery. It is more interesting to consider that with just a couple of performances of this theater per month in one average kindergarten you can earn 16,000 rubles, spending only a couple of hours. The most important thing is that these funds are not budgetary, not accounted for, but seemingly voluntary - after all, the parents themselves pay like a pretty penny so that the child does not stand out. But someone introduced these “good lessons” to the same kindergartens, someone set a tariff for these half-hour “lessons” that is almost comparable to a ticket to a professional theater?
Of course, the good old ways of collecting money from parents are still in use... Do you think “voluntary contributions” for the repair of groups in kindergartens or classrooms in schools have sunk into oblivion? Not at all - the good old thought - “this is for your children, let’s reset” is alive and taking on new forms. It’s also not much per child, pay 500 rubles for repairs, also voluntarily. And recently I was simply fascinated by the power of thought: they collected money from parents of preschool children for new... pillows (!) with the following message: “it’s more comfortable to sleep on them.” They collected and bought it in the simplest store, forgetting about sanitary standards...
So it turns out that in addition to the fee for keeping children in kindergarten, which is approximately 1500-2000 rubles, parents have to quietly shell out another 300-500 rubles every month without receipts. But no one will object - after all, in Russia they are used to not standing out from the crowd, they don’t like particularly smart people... Well, then we will consider this material an official appeal to the prosecutor of the Volgograd region.