In Novosibirsk, parents of second-grade students were asked about instilling patriotism in their children

Parents of students in the second grade of the information and economic lyceum in Novosibirsk were given questionnaires with questions about how they bring up patriotism in children.

Writes about this "Kommersant" . Parents were asked to answer 12 questions, including whether they consider themselves patriots, at what age they consider it necessary to acquaint their child with the history and symbols of the country, what is meant by civic education at school age, and what methods of such education are used in the family. Parents were also asked to talk about what traditions that form the patriotic feelings of the child, they cultivate. Most of the parents refused to fill out the questionnaire. They told the newspaper that the leadership of the lyceum was proposing to introduce a lesson in patriotic education.

In the Department of Education of the Novosibirsk City Hall, Kommersant was informed that they had not initiated a sociological study on issues of patriotic education. The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation could not promptly comment on the situation.

"Kommersant" notes that in Russia this is far from the first time that "patriotic education" is taught to schoolchildren. So, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Sergei Morozov, reported that during the 2018/19 academic year, ten patriotic lessons would be implemented in all educational institutions, the topics of which would be discussed “with colleagues from the federal center.” The press service of the regional Ministry of Education told Kommersant that guidelines for conducting ten lessons of patriotism have already been developed and sent to municipalities.

In April 2018, the parents of St. Petersburg schoolchildren complained about “patriotic education”. The day before the presidential election, at the request of the prosecutor's office, high school students from some schools were tested for knowledge of the law on rallies. At the same time, eleventh-graders of school No. 376 were asked to fill out questionnaires with questions about “love for the Motherland” and attitudes towards extremism. In an anonymous questionnaire, they were asked to indicate whether they consider themselves "patriots of Russia", whether they put "Russia's interests above their own" and whether they intend to refuse emigration.