The only school in Uskhod-2 sub-district could be closed

The Movement for Freedom (the MFF) activists provide possible organizational support to local residents. Protest collective letters to the City Executive Committee, the Ministry of Education, and to the head of state’s administration were drawn up.

The building of the secondary school No. 70 could be transferred to the grammar school No. 11 which isn’t particularly successful. After the 4th grade, the students who studied in this secondary school would have either to enter this grammar school or to find a secondary school in other sub-districts.

At the general education parents’ meeting with the participation of the representative of the Piershamayski district Education Department Mr. Charnyshou and the grammar school No. 11 head Mr. Boyka, the majority of parents was against joining these schools and was for preserving the secondary school No. 70 in the present state.

The parents think that transfer of their children to other schools and adaptation in new collectives would be accompanied by stress and would negatively influence the educational process. The way to school would be significantly longer and less safe since children would have to cross road way. Moreover, due to baby boom of the last years, the demand for a secondary school in this sub-district will rise even more in the near future, so this school shouldn’t ever be closed.

“The parents are indignant about the fact that the decision on joining the two schools and liquidation of school No. 70 was taken with no regard to their opinion. It would be rather hard to become the student of the enlarged grammar school. Moreover, most parents don’t want their children to have increased emotional and psychological loads relating to the intensive academic programme. The liquidation of the only secondary education school in the sub-district violates the rights of parents and of their children to affordable general education. Therefore, we are ready to provide the possible support to the sub-district residents in their actions to preserve this school”, the MFF activist Viktar Yanchurevich says.

The interested sub-district residents have already collected some 100 signatures under the collective appeal demanding to cancel the plans on the grammar school extension and to preserve the secondary school No. 70. In the nearest future, this appeal will be sent to the Minsk City Executive Committee, to the Ministry of Education, and to the head of state’s administration.

Every day on their way to school, children would have to cross Kiedyshki street and the canal or to go through the road way of Kalinouskaha street.

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