A technical school teacher was fired after a letter to Medvedev about low salaries

Viktor Makarenko, a teacher at the Taganrog Metallurgical College, was fired after he wrote a letter to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev complaining about the low salaries of teachers. about this Writes "161.ru".

Several teachers, headed by Viktor Makarenko, sent a letter to Medvedev complaining about low salaries and lack of indexation. “Just in order for a teacher to reach the subsistence minimum in the region (the poverty line), his salary should be raised by 40%, but this is not even in the intention,” the letter says.

After that, the administration of the educational institution where Makarenko works decided to dismiss the teacher. The regional ministry of general and vocational education said that Makarenko's dismissal was not connected with the letter sent to Medvedev. Allegedly, the teacher was fired for "accumulated disciplinary offenses during his work at the technical school."