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The school principal creates a council “who will help to understand” with accusations of sexual harassment

On August 29, the Medusa journalist Ekaterina Kronhaus wrote a post on her personal Facebook, dedicated to the teacher of the prestigious Moscow school, who had sexual relations with the students. From the comments on the record, it quickly became clear that we are talking about the metropolitan school No. 57. The post has become one of the most discussed in Russian Facebook this week; Information was taken by the Investigative Committee. On the evening of September 1, the director of the 57th school, Sergei Mendelevich, published a statement in which he spoke about the creation of a public council, "which will help us to understand everything." Medusa tells the main thing about this story.

The post of Ekaterina Kronhaus is dedicated to the teacher, who for 16 years "twisted novels with the students." A Medusa employee wrote about this not following a journalistic investigation and not on the editorial office, but in private - as a former student of the metropolitan school. From the post it follows that Kronhaus was going to prepare materials about this story twice - when she worked in the magazines "Big City" and Gala - and even talked with one former schoolgirl who underwent harassment. However, colleagues of Kronhaus, who studied children from the same institution, took a journalist from writing such a text both times. Kronhaus decided to publish a post after "people and forces were found in these people to collect evidence." The teacher at school no longer works in the recording; When he was fired, it is unknown.

The discussion of this topic has been going on for the third day. Users in the comments to the post claimed that it was widely known about the teacher’s connections with the students: “Both the students and students were also silent, whom this did not directly concern.” It was said that "in this school there are many teachers with similar hobbies, they are not fired." Many were surprised that the teacher remained in office for a long time. Others did not like that the parents of the students did not take response. The ethical side of what happened was also discussed. “Romanes with schoolchildren (it doesn’t matter which floor is in a couple) is an ethical misconduct that is unacceptable for a school teacher. The principle is simple-there can be no voluntary relations between two people, one of whom is clearly or does not clearly depend on the other, ” wrote , for example, a graduate of the 57th school, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago Konstantin Sonin.

Some users condemned the journalist for talking about this story. “I will still ask here supporters of publicity. What effect is everyone hoping for? In addition to the fact that Lifeyus will begin to be on duty around the school and the close attention of all departments, from city to federal ones, will be attracted to it? ” - said one of the commentators. “The conversation cannot be pleasant for one thousand Moscow children, who are now [the owner of Life Aram] Gabrelyanov will be stunned <...> Do not write denunciations, and you won’t get into the informers,” the blogger Anton Nosik insisted .

On September 1, it became known that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation began verification in connection with the messages "On sexual relations of the teacher of Moscow school No. 57 with schoolgirls."

In the evening of the same day, a statement signed by the director Sergei Mendelevich appeared on the website of school No. 57 . He noted that he considers his task to “collect facts and get all the answers” ​​- so that there are no “no white spots, shut -on stories”. He also announced his intention to create a public council from students, parents and graduates of the school, "which will help to understand everything." At the same time, Mendelevich refrained from the mention of the names, noting that "many of the most terrible accusations sounded addressed to various people."

Evgeny Berg

Moscow