Tank waltz on lists

The idea of ​​the Minister of Defense and Governor of the Moscow Region to collect all graduates in the Patriot Park caused children, parents and teachers horror

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu suggested that schoolchildren near Moscow celebrate the graduation evening in Patriot Park, in Kubinka. And the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov, following this, officially invited graduates of the region there: all nine-graders and all eleventh graders (this is almost one hundred thousand people: 64.6 thousand graduates of 9 grades and 31.2 thousand-11). The Ministry of Education of the Moscow Region said that participation in this event would be voluntary. However, in the schools near Moscow, they require graduates of the turnout, and children and parents write refusals from the patriotic graduation.

Questions to the authors of the idea
So far, no one can answer the questions:

How to get by traffic jams and will there be traffic police escort vehicles?
Who and how will follow the order?
What to do with a terrorist threat: children until the morning will only go through the framework? Or there will be no framework?
Where to put sewn ball dresses?
How to provide food, will there be enough toilets?
And if it is rain?

The state, represented by regional departments and ministries of education, gradually takes the function of regulating completely internal school holidays: the latest calls and graduation. Traditionally, eleventh graders at the last call say goodbye to the school; Sometimes it develops into a large cabbage, sometimes children go for a walk around the city and swim in fountains, not inferior to August paratroopers. As a result, the Moscow Education Department urgently recommended that schools limit himself to a ruler at the last call: read the order for admission to the exams and everything so that the children would not relax. In the suburbs this year, a single day of the last call - May 25 (in Moscow, the schools themselves are chosen by the schools themselves). General graduations for graduates of the city are held in Moscow (in Gorky Park) and in St. Petersburg. About 30% of graduates (approximately 16 thousand people) participate in the capital in this mass festival, almost all, about 30 thousand in St. Petersburg.

Here the Ministry of Education of the Moscow Region decided to follow the example of Moscow and St. Petersburg, organizing a common holiday. The Minister of Education of the Moscow Region Marina Zakharova, according to RIA Novosti, promised: “It will be a grand show. I can’t disclose all the secrets now, but we want it to be the same as the “Scarlet Sails” graduation ball. We may have elements of chic film festivals. ” Graduates promised the performance of Russian pop stars (they specially learned from schoolchildren what music they like) and communication with popular bloggers.

However, it seems that not all graduates are eager to spend their holiday with the whole area: many believe that graduation is a chamber evening, and they want to spend it with their friends in their school or in a cafe/restaurant.

Parents are also not enthusiastic: as a rule, they plan a graduation evening ahead of time, collect money in advance and pay for the rental of the hall in cafes or restaurants; The abolition of the order entails the penalty, and no one wants to change something in a hurry.

Natalia, the mother of the graduate, Balashikha: “On May 12, the director of our school pressed on our class teacher, so that instead of graduation, the children would go to Kubinka on June 24. We voiced the version that the Governor of the Moscow Region organized the entire event. The class teacher categorically refused to go to Kubinka. And the director called the parent committee of the class. There were many words and emotions on both sides. All parents were against the trip: this completely breaks the entire organized graduation class: to go at least four hours one way, 30 thousand graduates are unsafe, well, individual children, in principle, will not go anywhere and will not go.

And on May 16, at a meeting in the classroom, the director voiced that there was such an opportunity, those who wish can join. We were very surprised: this has changed in a few days. Why was there such pressure at first and such a calm ending at the end, no one knows. We only said that if the event were known in a year, then everything would be better organized and there would be no conflict. Balashikha is not such a big city, the venue of graduation is booking a year before the event, otherwise there will be no place. Well, animators with choreographers are also looking for a year: they write a holiday program, put a waltz. Some children would go to a cube, but not instead of graduation, but as an additional party event. And they would like to spend the graduation with their classmates. ”

Teachers are also not enthusiastic.

Teacher, G. Podolsk: “The graduation was supposed to be the 23rd, but since the USE certificates would not be earlier than the 29th, the entire banquet was postponed to June 30. And on June 30, all directors were ordered to provide 30-40 people without fail. At 14 o’clock near the city administration there will be buses. Start at 17 hours, the holiday is planned up to 23 hours, there will be 30 thousand children. They promise the red carpet. There is nowhere to put money. The venture of the governor. The school has nothing to pay for a communal apartment, but the Governor of Cannes is and the red carpet. ”

There are a lot of ambiguities in general: the general graduation evenings are scheduled for June 23, graduation in Patriot-on the 24th. Many schools did not understand: whether it is necessary to cancel the graduation on the 23rd and send everyone to the Patriot or is it for those who wish. Some schools hurried to cancel their events, and the parents were indignant.

Social networks, regional sites and portals are full of messages of angry people. Most express typical fears: firstly, tens of thousands of graduates in one place under the supervision of several teachers from each school are a mess. Secondly, getting to the Patriot Park from many areas of the Moscow Region is very difficult and long, well, and plus it-plans are collapsing.

From the discussion on the forum of the Dobrodel project, Moscow Region 360:

Elena: “They asked the children - they are horrified! They don’t want to go ... How will the children be taken to Kubinka (June 24, on Saturday, when Mozhaika and Minka “stand” - summer residents go!), Will the traffic police be accompanied by every bus? ”

Marina: “Go 5 hours to the park, then slap the bus on foot. In what condition will children and parents come? Hang out in a crowd of 32 thousand people .... And then back the path of 6 o’clock ... Will it bring joy to children and their parents? And why collect all the youth in one place ??? "

Tatyana: “ To get out of the cube either the bus on which I arrived (if they released from the territory), or by train, I would also know where to look for it, and this is in the evening. The presence of one of the parents is required at the graduation, and here they collect the crowd under the supervision of teachers (mainly women), but God forbid, if something happens, who will be responsible for this? I do not want to experiment with my child, this is complete idiocy! "

Nameless : "Well, now tell me how quickly they will miss 36,000 people through metal detectors?"

Parents from the Pavlovsky Posad report that they together wrote a rejection of the holiday in the Patriot Park.

Anonymous graduate: “Here someone wrote that the children want it. So, I will speak out from the children: no, they don’t want to. I speak not only from myself, but also from my classmates. Sorry, but “celebrate” in jeans and sneakers (and other clothes there simply will not be suitable because of the crush, etc., there can be no question of the dress) for the hits of “beautiful” performers like Creed and Basta? Seriously? Did someone think about the safety and threat of terrorist attacks? Someone thought tritely about the presence of toilets, etc.? Did someone think that skirmishes or harassment against girls will definitely take place in the crowd? Did someone think about traffic jams? Someone thought about a simple fear of the crowd (alas, I personally suffer from this)? No? So let those who want there go there, and not all because of coercion from the director and administration. Perhaps I will now speak out a little out of topic, but how can you be a patriot after this? ”

Alexander, a graduate, Mytishchi: "The initiative of the forced collection of graduates of the Moscow region in a park with the loud name" Patriot "cannot cause positive emotions."

Both parents and graduates strongly doubt that tanks, helicopters and partisan village are the most suitable entourage for the graduation ball. For some reason, graduates do not want military equipment, but want to wear beautiful dresses, dance, meet the dawn in the garden, in the park, walk, listen to the nightingales, chat, kiss. Yes, they are surprised: what does the tanks have to do with it? Why are the stage stars better than dawn birds? Farewell to the school and friends does not require noise and a thousands of crowds.

Parents and graduates suggested a lot of alternative and ironic ideas: for example, to arrange “hunger games” among graduates in Kubinka in order to reduce the competition in universities. Or combine graduation with an appeal to the army: we came to the Patriot, and here are tables with military commissars. Military patriotism is so military patriotism, unity is so unity, which is trifling.

The text is written with the participation of Elena Svachshkina