The prosecutor’s office conducted an inspection of the schools of the Central District of St. Petersburg and did not find in them inventory for equipping life safety rooms. In particular, in the arsenal of educational institutions there were no dummies of F-1 and RGD-5 grenades , models of Kalashnikov assault rifles, shooting simulators, mini- laboratories of radiation-chemical reconnaissance and other educational materials, Fontanka writes .
All schools had to equip classrooms before the end of last year. Such purchases are financed from the district budgets. After receiving instructions from the prosecutor’s office, only in the Central District of St. Petersburg are going to spend 23 million rubles for these purposes.
The list of equipment that should now be in every school is contained in the order of the Ministry of Education of September 2022. The city committee on education confirmed that the availability of all this equipment is mandatory, since the subject “Basic military training” is introduced into the program of 10-11th grades – it is included in the life safety course. Schoolchildren will be taught the basics of tactical training, handling various types of weapons and first aid.
Having discovered a “shortage” in the 294th school, the prosecutor went to court. The defendant objected that grenades and shooting simulators are optional items for schools, and also pointed out the outdated and inappropriate recommendations of the Ministry of Education and the availability of other equivalent modern teaching aids. However, the court took the side of the plaintiff.
Earlier, Minister of Education Serhiy Kravtsov said that participants in the war in Ukraine could teach life safety. To do this, after returning from the front, they will only need to undergo “certain training”, but what it will consist of, he did not specify.
The idea of the Minister was supported by the founder of Wagner PMC, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. “I completely agree that NWO participants should teach in OBZh schools. One day in the war gives life experience like a few years lived in ordinary life, ” he said .
Prior to this, Pavel Krupnik, head of the United Russia faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, made a similar proposal. In his opinion , the lessons of the NVP would allow the participants in the war to adapt to civilian life. “I saw these guys: their legs and arms were amputated. They need to find themselves in this life in peacetime, they need a job. <…> They have experience, they have something to tell,” Krupnik explained.
Also, the idea to involve combatants in teaching NVP in schools was approved by the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
After the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian authorities became concerned about the mindset of young people and decided to increase federal budget spending on “educating patriotism among citizens” within the framework of the national project “Education” by more than 6 times, to 39.7 billion rubles, in 2023.
Already in September last year, a lesson called “Conversations about the Important” appeared in schools, in which the goals and objectives of the invasion of a neighboring country are explained to children. In addition, the authorities are preparing a unified history textbook on Russia’s “greatness” – work on it is headed by President Putin’s aide Vladimir Medinsky.
Source: Moscow Times
