"People think that I will bring phalloimitators to school"

In St. Petersburg, a school teacher lost her job because of a blog about sex education. "New" talked to her

A young teacher of biology at the school at the conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Olga Schegolev was forced to quit because of the sex blog for adults, which she led on Instagram. According to Schegoleva, so the school administration responded to the complaints of parents: first, the teacher had to remove and edit some posts, and later write a dismissal application.

- How long have you been working at school and when did the blog appear?

- I have been teaching in schools since 2014, but I had a two -year break - just at that time I created a blog. And this is my first school since the creation of the blog. No one had any complaints about my pedagogical activity, because I know biology well, I teach great teaching and love children.

- What exactly did you teach at school? And what age did you work with children?

-From 5th to 11th grade. And the topic of puberty, the reproductive system is only in the eighth grade. Of course, the structure of other sexual systems pass before, it begins with flowers and there are also genitals - male and female. Further in the course of zoology, this is versed - from worms to mammals. Of course, children know the words “penis” and “vagina”, “vagina”, “ovaries”. You can open any textbook and make sure of this.

But I do not work with children ( on the topic of sex educational. - Auth. ) Without the request of my parents.

You can ask me to make a separate lesson about contraception, menstruation, about hygiene - such common things. But I do not tell children about technology and practice [CECSA], no.

These are an adult blog themes.

Parents simply did not like it, apparently that children can see this from the teacher. Although responsibility, of course, they carry content for [children].

- What specifically outraged parents?

- They were scared that children could see my blog. But I have 18+, there is a filter there, and not even all adults sometimes understand how to subscribe to it if the year is not put up ( we are talking about the year of birth of the user in the profile of the COTSET. - Ed. ). Accordingly, the children who sign on me are deceiving this filter. But I can’t do anything else for my part. Only do everything that Instagram can do.

- What happened next?

- Parents wrote a complaint to the rector [conservatory], threw photos from my account. And of course, when a person receives an absolutely torn from context of things from the blog 18+, he is in shock ...

- How did the school leadership react?

- In the administration, at first I was offered to simply remove some posts that did not suit my parents. I deleted them, processed them and posted again-in a form that was more or less arranged. But my parents, apparently, did not satisfy my position: I was not going to close the blog and stop my activities. As a result, it became clear that for the school this is not acceptable. That the teacher should have a certain moral appearance, and I do not fit into it.

-And the children somehow reacted to your dismissal?

- Yes. Children signed the paper with four classes or more - that they do not want me to leave. And the next day the administration changed my mind, said that I can pick up my statement [about dismissal]. But due to the fact that the mediation of this conflict was never carried out with my parents, I could not know when they would press me next time. That is, I will take a statement, and in a week this story will happen again?

- Why did you first closed it, and then opened your blog again?

- I wanted to live the last week to be left alone, - to spend the last lessons with children. Then ( after the publicity of the whole story . - Ed. ) So many people knocked on me that it was already strange to keep the blog closed. I left school in order to maintain my activities. And all this situation you just need to survive ...

You know, I now looked at the report on “Russia 24”, and my hair stood on end simply. I am very ashamed that my face next to [Vladimir] Solovyov, because it is just a failure.

-By the way of the federal channels: you yourself could guess what position from there is broadcast regarding the sex interval, especially from school teachers ...

-You see, when I say that I am engaged in a sexword, people think that I will bring phalloimitators to school and teach children to do something. But this is not so! I teach contraception, talk about the structure of the reproductive system .... I am not a sexologist, not a tarologist - I am a biologist and psychologist, I teach scientific information.

The problem is that some parents believe that teachers must exist without personal life, they cannot do anything besides the school -

These should be such nuns and monks who see only teaching with their meaning. I am not such a person, I have many different interests.

- Are you planning to get up to school again?

- No, and now they will not take me to work in any school. I plan to survive now what is happening, and then see how it goes.

Galina Kandinskaya , especially for "New"