Family education at home. Distance learning for children

Some children know about school life only from the stories of friends and acquaintances. These are children who are educated at home, and they are also considered schoolchildren, however, they do not study for school desk under the guidance of a teacher, and at a home desk under the guidance of parents or tutors. And only parents decide whether the child needs to be transferred to this type of education.

When is it necessary to transfer to home schooling?

Sometimes it is better not to force a child to go to school every day, but to transfer him to home schooling. Here are five main reasons when it's really worth doing:

1. If a child is far ahead of his peers in terms of mental development. For example, he has studied the entire school curriculum and is not interested in sitting in class, he is distracted, interferes with others, so the child may completely lose interest in studying. There is an option - to skip a year or two in order to study with older children, but then the child will lag behind in physical, mental and social development.

2. The child has serious hobbies, for example, professional sports, music or drawing. It is difficult to combine such a hobby with school activities.

3. If your job or your husband’s job involves constant moving, when your child has to constantly change schools. This is very traumatic for him. Difficulties with academic performance may arise, and it is psychologically difficult to get used to new teachers, classmates, and new surroundings.

4. You do not want to send your child to a regular secondary school for ideological or religious reasons.

5. The child has serious health problems (home schooling, then teachers come to the child themselves).

How to arrange homeschooling

In order to transfer a child to home schooling, you will need a few documents: an application for transition to home schooling, a birth certificate or passport of the child, and medical certificates if the reason for the transfer is the child’s health condition.

The first thing you need to do is find out if the charter of the school you choose to which you will be assigned has a clause on home schooling, otherwise the school will refuse you. Then you can contact another school or directly to the education department of the local administration; they should have a list of those schools that provide home education.

If you yourself want to arrange home schooling, then only an application and documents for the child will be enough, and if the child switches to home schooling for health reasons, then you need to contact your local doctor so that he can give a referral to a psychological, medical and pedagogical consultation, at which it will be decided whether the child needs to switch to home schooling, and will issue a certificate that is valid for a year.

An application for switching to home schooling must be written to the school director, but it is possible that he does not want to take responsibility, then he will send the application to the education department. Or you can immediately write a statement to the administration yourself.

The application must indicate what subjects and how many hours the child will study. You can consult with your school teachers on this issue.

The prepared training schedule must be agreed upon with the school administration. You can either teach your child yourself or hire tutors; teachers from the school can come for certain subjects (this is subject to your agreement). For some subjects, a child can come to school to see teachers, but only after classes are over, and again, if you agree.

After everything is completed, you should be given a journal where you will mark the topics that you covered with your child and give him grades.

As soon as the child is transferred to home schooling, an agreement is concluded that spells out the rights and responsibilities between the school, parents and child, as well as the deadlines for certification.

How does homeschooling work?

When studying at home, the child receives all knowledge either from tutors hired by the parents, or the parents themselves teach, or the child independently studies the subjects, for example, those that he likes the most.

The child comes to school only for intermediate and final certification. If a child studies according to the program of the school itself, then his own certification will coincide with the certification that takes place at the school. And if the child is studying in an accelerated program, then initially the parents and the school administration will draw up a schedule for submitting final papers according to the child’s individual plan. Typically, certification takes place every six months. The child has two attempts to pass it, but if he fails, then most likely he will return to study at a regular school.

The school should, in theory, provide you and your child with textbooks and other teaching materials.

And the state, for its part, pays parents funds for the child’s education - about 500 rubles per month. But in some regions it is higher due to compensation from the local administration.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Homeschooling

There is a lot of debate about the benefits of homeschooling and each side has its own arguments. TO merits homeschooling may include:

The ability to regulate the pace of learning yourself: stretch it out or complete the program of several classes in one year.
The child learns to rely only on his own knowledge and strength.
The child can study subjects of interest to him in more depth.
You yourself can adjust the school curriculum, taking into account its shortcomings.

TO shortcomings the following can be attributed:

The child does not socialize, does not learn to communicate and work in a team.
He has no experience speaking in public or defending his opinion in front of his peers.
Not all parents can effectively organize their children's education at home.
In the future, the child may have difficulty adapting to university studies and finding a job.

For a number of years now, the trend of abandoning school education in favor of educating the child at home followed by passing exams in the form of an external study. Both systems, both school and home-based, have their supporters and opponents, who give arguments both in defense and against each of the systems. Let's take a closer look at each of them.

Knowledge level

In one case or another, it is necessary to check the level of knowledge through some control measures (exams, tests, and so on). According to the Federal State Educational Standard, home-based education breaks away from the traditional structure, which significantly complicates the fitting of a child to a certain standard.

How are control activities carried out at school? If a child cannot cope with the task, that is, is not certified, then, undoubtedly, this leaves an imprint on his fate and destiny educational institution further. Thus, schools will never be interested in large numbers of failing students. Therefore, any certification is primarily carried out for the school, and not for the students. Of course, even if there are a huge number of unsuccessful students, the certification will be passed. In the case of home-based education, there is no such interest. Which, of course, increases the demand from a child who refuses to study in the system. During the exam, such a child may be interrogated with bias. After all, what stands out is what attracts the attention of others. One has only to remember the experiment with a monkey: several cubes and a ball are placed in front of it, and it chooses, of course, the ball, but when only cubes are placed in front of it, and all but one (red) are yellow, it chooses red.

In light of these factors, certification of home-based workers becomes a more stringent test for children. However, thanks to this, the knowledge of a homeschooler will be many times greater than that of an ordinary school student. Some may argue against selective homeschooling, but don't children at school choose their favorite subjects for which they are more capable? Therefore, homeschooling is in no way inferior to the school curriculum. Russian language or mathematics will be a priority - time will tell.

School socialization

Firstly, communication with the teacher, and secondly, communication with peers (team). Unfortunately, in schools, the dominance of the teacher over the student is clearly manifested, which gives communication a commanding and executive tone. Churchill also argued that in the hands of a school teacher there is power that the prime minister never even dreamed of. Such communication develops several aspects of a child’s character at once. Here is the ability to wriggle out, to humiliate yourself, to submit. Such socialization makes people mentally disabled, because they do not know how to communicate on equal terms. This is a direct path to civil servants. Such people are extremely resourceful and cunning, but they have to be put in their place, like in a wolf pack, otherwise, feeling even the slightest bit of superiority over others, they begin to be rude.

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Now let's talk about which children are transferred to home schooling. Sometimes you really shouldn't rape a person. It is better to let it develop harmoniously through family education. There are many reasons why parents do not send their children to educational institutions.

Reasons for transferring a child to home schooling:

1. In the case when the child is mentally an order of magnitude ahead of his peers. For example, he already knows how to read and write, he has mastered the program on his own. Such a child, finding himself in an environment where he already understands and knows everything, can suddenly lose interest in learning in general. For such children, there is a backup option - to go to school, skipping several grades. But this approach does not guarantee the child’s complete adaptation to environmental conditions, taking into account mental and physiological development.

2. If your child is seriously interested in something that could become his future profession. For example, a musician, an artist, and so on. It is difficult and counterproductive to mix these activities with school studies.

3. If the parents’ work requires constant travel, which does not have a positive effect on the child’s condition. A change of environment is already enough stress, let alone social adaptation in each new school.

4. When parents refuse to send their child to a general education institution for moral, ideological or other reasons.

5. It often happens that if a child has serious health problems, parents think about how to transfer their disabled child to home schooling. Usually, parents negotiate with teachers to come teach their son or daughter at home.

How to homeschool your child

First, you need to find out the situation in the chosen educational institution. Its charter must include a clause on home schooling, otherwise expect a refusal. Then you will have to contact other places or directly the education department of the local administration so that they can provide you with a list of schools with home education included in the charter.

Very few documents will be required to ensure that your child is educated at home. The following will be required: the child’s birth certificate or passport, an application for transfer to home schooling, as well as medical certificates if the reason for the transfer was the child’s health condition.

If parents themselves decide to give their child a family education, they will need to follow simple steps. Namely: collect documents, write an application, if a child switches to this type of education for health reasons, then parents need to contact their local doctor for a referral to a psychological, medical, and pedagogical council, where it will be decided whether it is worth transferring the child to home education.

An application to switch to home schooling is written to the school director, but there is also a chance that he will not want to take on such responsibility and will forward the application to the education department. As an option, write a statement directly to the administration.

This statement must reflect the number of subjects and hours assigned for homeschooling.

How to transfer a child to home schooling? It is necessary to coordinate the prepared class schedule with the school administration. Planning for home schooling can be left to school teachers, or you can independently develop your own methodology based on the child’s hobbies.

There are several types of home education:

1) Home-based training. With this approach, an individual education plan is drawn up for the child; schoolchildren come to the home and read subjects according to the schedule. This type of education is usually prescribed when there are medical indications.

2) Externship. The child studies the school curriculum either independently or with the help of his parents. Learning occurs at a pace and mode convenient for him. This technique involves independent control over passing exams; for example, a child can master a two-year program in one year and get ahead of his peers in development.

3) Self-study. In this case, the child chooses his own learning style; parents do not take any part in this. However, all types of home schooling require the child to attend school twice a year to take exams. After all, this is the only way he will be able to obtain a certificate of secondary education. Therefore, parents need to weigh the pros and cons before sending their child to school or homeschooling.

One step forward or one step back?

Now in the world digital technologies, Internet communication and the surge in social networks, it has even become possible to study not only at home, but also virtually. For example, the first virtual school was even opened in Germany.

Now school is not a place to raise a child. Just 20-30 years ago, knowledge was obtained only from books, but now the range of sources on the Internet is simply massive. This will make it much easier for parents and children to create the right direction for home schooling.

School is no longer a bastion of moral or moral exemplars. At home, you can choose individual lessons for your own child, based on his interests, hobbies, and hobbies. So, over time, he will learn to independently distribute his free time in order to get the maximum benefit. Of course, the child has more free time after switching to home schooling, but this should not be abused, because time is our builder. Offer to your child various activities, praise for attempts and inspire new achievements.

Replace school with an online academy!

Of course, many parents are unlikely to devote enough time to their child. In this case, online learning comes to the rescue. There are entire academies on the Internet for young professionals, filled with videos. various topics and levels. It is worth noting that such academies provide their services completely free of charge.

Today, many universities around the world have begun to conduct online lectures. The only obstacle may be knowledge of the language, but this does not prevent you from studying English, German and other languages at home through Internet resources, tutors, and so on. Everything is solvable.

Knowledge or skills?

School requires assessment, but children will need skills in life. For example, performance. “I want - I don’t want” is not quoted here. To become a good specialist, you need to use your skills day after day. This skill is developed not only in an educational institution, but in engaging in interesting and useful activities, such as sports, designing models, creating computer games. The skill of achieving results is also very important. Such a skill is difficult to develop in school conditions due to the fact that the time schedule does not allow the child to immerse himself in knowledge and apply it in practice. As soon as the child begins to understand, 45 minutes of instructional time ends, and he has to urgently readjust. This method has become obsolete, since memory does not have time to store the acquired knowledge in a separate “file” in the student’s brain. As a result, school lessons turn into a time that you just need to “get through.” Learning, like any process, should bring results. Started - finished - got the result. Such a scheme will teach not only patience and ability to work, but also cultivate strong-willed qualities child.

Communication

The myth that there is live communication in school has long been outdated. Everyone knows that at school a student should be silent, attract less attention and generally be quieter than water, lower than the grass. Only at events in an informal setting is it possible to build full-fledged communication.

As practice shows, children with a lot of interests who attend various clubs and sections are more socially adapted than those who remain silent throughout the entire lesson. Does it make sense to rape your children just because the system prescribed it? Give your children communication, confidence, and then all roads will be open for them!

Ratings

Grades are just the subjective vision of certain people. They should not affect your relationship with your child in any way. Many famous people did not bother at all about grades and tests because they realized in time that at school they were wasting their precious time, which they could spend on improving their skills and abilities.

Cultivating a child's interest

Encourage in every possible way any manifestation of interest in your child. Any hobby is already wonderful, even if something seems frivolous to you. Let children be children. The period for recognition is the age from 9 to 13 years. You need to listen carefully to all your child’s dreams and give him the opportunity to realize his aspirations. As long as he has something to do that he can do without a break, as long as he is ready to invest energy, he develops important life skills.

Protection from non-professionals

Not every teacher is a true teacher worth listening to. There are some teachers who can use assault or obscene language during the lesson. If this happens to someone, you cannot remain silent about it. Only through reforms can development and improvement be achieved.

Believe in your child

Only you can take his side, you are his support and protection. The whole world is against your child, take his side and support his hobbies and interests.

The decision to transfer a child to home education, or home schooling, as it is commonly called now, falls entirely on the shoulders of the parents; they will have to take responsibility for the future of their child. And if you look at it this way, isn’t it their prerogative? Why on earth should the fate of your children be decided by other people's uncles and aunts, teachers, officials and others like them?

Before transferring a child to home schooling, he must first be shown to an experienced psychologist. Only by putting together a puzzle of character traits and type of thinking can one determine the temperament of the offspring. It is this procedure that will help determine whether he is ready for home schooling.

So we told you how to transfer a child to home schooling and in what cases it should be done. Now you can make the right decision.

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The trend of abandoning school education is gaining popularity every year. The child is home-schooled and then takes exams externally. For a student to study at home, the state must provide certain grounds.

Reasons for transferring a child to home schooling

The term individual training refers to different types studying without going to school. They differ from each other depending on the reasons:

Family - organization of studies by parents who act as teachers.
Home-based study with partial attendance at school for medical reasons.
Individual training at school due to health reasons - teachers come to your home by prior arrangement. Designed for disabled children.
Externship. Suitable for schoolchildren with high level knowledge.
Distance learning. Convenient for those who want to gain knowledge from more qualified teachers. Communication with them occurs remotely via the Internet.

How to Homeschool

Transferring a child to home schooling in Russia is possible with permission from the education authority. They will make a positive decision in the following situations:

the student is mentally ahead of his peers;
Parents' work involves constant moving;
the child is engaged in some activity that will later become his profession (artist, athlete, musician, etc.);
ideological or moral principles parents;
due to serious health problems, the student does not keep up with the school curriculum (oncology, epilepsy and others).

For health

In this case, the basis for home study is medical indications. These include the presence of chronic diseases in the student, long-term outpatient treatment, or the protracted nature of the illness. Actions for parents to transition to home education:

A medical certificate must be issued through the KEC (control and expert commission). You should contact your doctor to receive written recommendations. After they are submitted to the KEC, a conclusion will be issued. The medical certificate records the diagnosis and duration of recommended study at home (from 1 month to 1 year), includes the signatures of doctors and the round seal of the clinic.
A written application must be made to the head of the educational institution in which the child studied, requesting that the student be transferred to an individual curriculum. A KEC certificate is attached to it.
Based on the documents received, the school administration does not have the right to refuse parents’ request. Management is obliged to organize an individual lesson schedule and intermediate testing.

For family education

If an individual form of education at school is expensive for parents, then they have the right to teach their child independently. According to the Law on Education of the Russian Federation, this can be done at any time. school year. Steps parents need to take:

Write an application to the director with a request to expel your child from school, indicating the reason.
Write a notice of your decision to the Department of Education.
Also write another application to the director with a request to enroll the student in this educational institution for external certification.

Distance education

Important! An educational institution must have a license to conduct distance learning.

Selected at will or according to urgent need. To transfer a student you must:

Write a statement of expulsion to the director of the school where the child studied.
Take away his personal business.
Notify the municipal education committee about this (by phone or in writing).
Choose an institution that will teach remotely.

They switch to distance education for several reasons. Among them:

education for a disabled child;
individual interaction between student and teacher;
education during illness;
gifted student;
additional education for students of art, sports and other vocational schools.

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Switching to homeschooling for family reasons

The law does not specify what kind of “family circumstances” are due to which parents transfer their child to home schooling. This is only the parents' decision. There are a few steps you need to follow to teach your child at home.

Step 1. We notify the regional education authorities (Ministry/Department/Division) that you are transferring your child to family education. Parents are obliged to do this in accordance with Art. 63 hours 5 new Federal Law“On education in the Russian Federation.” The application is submitted in writing in two copies. The law allows you to give notice in person or by mail.

If you notify in person, the institution will put a stamp and the date of receipt of the document on the second copy. The application is of a notification nature. You simply inform the relevant authority of your choice. So that the regulatory authorities do not decide that the child is skipping school. The education authority can only take note of your decision. Officials do not have the right to prohibit, not allow or disapprove of a choice.

Step 2. Let's go to school.

At school, parents write a statement that they are transferring their child to home schooling and ask to expel him from school. The application is written in free form. Within a week, the school is required to provide the student’s personal file and medical record.

The school principal does not have the right to refuse to expel a child from school for home education. If the school refuses to expel you, we demand a written explanation from the director and complain about it to the education authorities.

After a child has been expelled from school, parents draw up an individual education plan. From that moment on, responsibility for the child’s education lies with the parents.

By the way, before (before 2012, when the current law “On Education” was adopted), parents signed an agreement with the school. It prescribed the forms and timing of certification, the deadlines for completing practical and laboratory work. The student was invited to educational, practical and other classes according to the school schedule. Now there is no need to conclude a contract. Those parents who were dissatisfied with the school's requirements to attend tests or other classes at school breathed a sigh of relief.

“Semeynik” acquires the status of “external student” - he goes to school only for intermediate and final certifications. Minus - those who regularly came to school for free consultations, they can forget about it. What subjects to study is decided by the school, and how to teach them is decided by parents. The school does not interfere in this process and does not check. Parents themselves determine the teaching methods, the time allotted for each topic, the amount of material that can be given outside the framework of the program, and much more.

You don’t have to buy textbooks - the school should give the “family student” free ones.

The child also enjoys other rights of an ordinary schoolchild: he can participate in olympiads and competitions, use the school library, etc. Until the 9th grade, a parent has the right not to report to the school at all about what and how he teaches the child.

The first mandatory exam is the GIA in the 9th grade. The next one is the Unified State Exam in 11th. Request a list of schools where your child will take these exams (mandatory certification) from the education department.

From the list of schools, parents choose the one where the child will take exams - and write an application addressed to the director. Like the notification, the application must be submitted to the school office against a signature on the second copy or sent by mail by a first-class letter with acknowledgment of delivery and a list of the contents.

After this, the school issues an administrative act, which will indicate the person’s admission to the educational institution for certification. The child undergoes such certification free of charge. At the request of the child and parent, exams (intermediate certification) can be taken once a year.

Switching to homeschooling for medical reasons

The law allows children to study at home for medical reasons:

- with chronic diseases;

- with a protracted illness;

- who are treated on an outpatient basis for a long time.

Recommendations to switch to home schooling are given by your attending physician. Sometimes parents make this decision on their own. The school will allow the child to study at home during illness if there is a certificate issued through the control and expert commission (KEC). It is issued at the regular clinic to which the child is assigned.

Be sure to check it out! The certificate must contain the signature of the doctor who issued the document; doctor observing the child; head of the children's clinic; chief physician of the children's clinic. The document is affixed with the round seal of the clinic.

After parents have received the certificate in hand, they need to go to school. A free-form application is written to the school principal with a request to transfer the student to home schooling. A certificate is attached to the application.

The maximum period of study at home is one year (academic), the minimum is a month (usually for injuries and operations).

Olga Slastukhina

2017-11-10 14:23:02 Princess T.V.

The article did not disclose the most important thing: in the first case, you teach the child on your own, and in the second, the school provides the teacher at its own expense. According to medical indications, it turned out to be not so easy to transfer a child! There is a list of 60 diagnoses with which they are transferred, the rest are ignored. No one cares how sick your child is. Let him walk around and earn a more complicated diagnosis for himself with each illness. (This is very sad, you have to miss a lot due to protracted illnesses and then make up for it at your own expense. Everything is for the people, as always.

2017-10-31 16:35:53 Putsko Marina Nikolaevna

Thanks for the information, very useful, because... we will probably have to pick up our first grade grandson from school. Studying at school No. 14, class with the experimental program "Harmony". The child reads, retells, and counts quickly enough examples from the 2nd grade of the “Planet of Knowledge” program. But the “Harmony” program with squares and zeros puts him into a stupor. My grandson categorically does not want to go to school, although before this program he studied with great pleasure. In two months of attending school, I didn’t learn even a grain of knowledge. Our family is terrified. We are surprised why they allowed us to experiment on our children without parental consent and cripple the psyche of young children.

2017-09-07 14:09:04 Music by V.A.

Finally, people can break away from totalitarianism. Stop making our children a statistical mass. These new standards of education have driven people into a dead end. They put blinders on their eyes and think they’ll have a ride. NO! Gentlemen. Our children also have the right to a free life, and not just your Majors. We’ll also see who will grow up from whom. THANK YOU to a Just RUSSIA! With all my heart, I wish them good luck. I would like to tell us good luck, but I Unfortunately, neither is a member of this party.

Home education for schoolchildren every year it becomes more and more popular. And many parents are no longer afraid of the prospect of taking responsibility for their children’s education.

Who is it suitable for? homeschooling, and what it looks like in practice schoolchildren's home education?

Olga is a psychologist and psychology teacher by education (RIVSH BSU Minsk), a gestalt therapist (Moscow Gestalt Institute), a diploma from the Higher School of Psychology (Moscow) in the program “Coaching and Leadership,” a Master of Business Administration. Teaches in the MBA program.

Good afternoon, Olga! Thank you for agreeing to answer our questions!

What pros and cons do you see in home education?

The most important advantage is the health of the children. Different researchers come to the same conclusion: school worsens children’s health. If we take research from the Ministry of Health, we can say that the older schoolchildren get, the less healthy they are. By the end of school, the number of healthy children drops by 3-4 times. 93% of graduates have various diseases: neuropsychiatric disorders, gastritis, scoliosis, etc.

Children spend time immobile, are in a physiologically harmful position at their desks, constant voltage: fear of answering at the blackboard, conflicts with classmates, noise during breaks, poor nutrition at school... Children spend several hours a day in serious stress. Plus, the burden of homework is added to this.

TO high school the difference between children who spend on school lessons and homework for 9 hours, and a child studying at home for 2 hours. The second spends the remaining free time on fresh air, he gets enough sleep and can afford to play sports.

If parents are able to pay for the services of a good tutor, it is obvious that the educational material will be learned better than in a school class of 25 children.

Homeschooled children They are more independent from evaluation and from other people’s opinions, they are more result-oriented and more independent. Children get used to not being in a herd or in a crowd. They grow up with bright personalities. From my point of view, this is a plus. Although parents with such children have a more difficult time than with an obedient child ( smiling).

The disadvantages of home education affect mainly parents ( smiling).

For mom, homeschooling becomes a second job - in fact, it is the work of the director of a mini-school. We need to find teachers, organize the educational process and logistics (if travel is necessary), and spend a lot of time with the children.

Every year there are more and more children being homeschooled in Russia. Now their number has reached 100,000 people.

What is the difference between family education and distance learning?

Law “On Education in Russian Federation» offers the following forms of education:

- full-time - regular school;

- part-time - part-time - a child can study some subjects at school, and some - take exams;

— correspondence (including distance learning);

- family education and self-education - education not according to the school curriculum, but as parents want.

The difference between correspondence education and family education is that in the first case the child strictly adheres to the school program, and with family education, he learns what the parents consider more correct.

It turns out that with the family form of education the child will be left without a certificate?

No. The child can take the final exams externally. It’s just that with this form of education there is no strict adherence to the school plan.

When do you need to take exams?

You can take current tests during the school year according to the school plan and be assigned a student to a specific class. In this case, you have the right to receive advice from teachers.

Or you can study according to the family form and, when you need a certificate, you will need to take all subjects at school.

How do you know if homeschooling is right for your child?

This training option is suitable for all children if it is compensated by parents.

Parents must be responsible and have the resources to provide their child with a complete environment, both learning and socially. If you think that someone else will have to organize this without your direct participation, then home schooling is not suitable for your family.

Also, the option of teaching at home may not be suitable for children - social activists who simply need power, social and organizational activities. In this case, school may be almost the only place to realize these ambitions. But there are only a few such children...

How will a homeschooled child learn to interact with peers? How does socialization work?

If we consider that 24 hours a day for three months during summer holidays, another month of autumn, winter and spring holidays, plus Saturdays and Sundays, plus holidays and time outside of school - that’s how much time a year a child is away from the school community.

Then you need to take into account that this very socialization at school takes place during school breaks, which last 10 minutes. How long can a child freely communicate with peers at school? Can we be sure that this meager time will ensure the child’s socialization?

The best socialization occurs in companies that do not have adult supervision, so to speak, in an unstructured society. The ideal option is a yard company. Or in associations of interests: circles and sections. There are various health camps and sanatoriums. This is more than enough to learn how to interact with people.

When children of the same age are herded into a school building without any common interests, this is the wrong model for socialization. In real adult life, the models are different.

Common goals and interests are found among people of completely different ages. Therefore, I believe that the school model even worsens or reduces socialization. If we take the definition of socialization from Wikipedia, which is the ability to achieve success in adult society, then the likelihood of adult success after the school model decreases.

In many schools, teachers do not monitor the upbringing of children. We can observe bullying from classmates, even crimes by children against each other... And acquiring the habit of pleasing antisocial individuals at school is not at all the correct socialization of a child.

Socialization is making friends with more successful people and doing joint projects with them, the ability to join a team to work together and achieve goals. It turns out that it is activities based on interests that contribute to socialization.

What should parents be prepared for when transferring their child to home schooling?

Firstly, be prepared for criticism, gloomy forecasts and predictions from friends and relatives. There will definitely be public pressure. Our people cannot calmly look at those who do not follow the social order like everyone else ( smiling). And parents need to learn to send all well-wishers to go about their business.

Secondly, parents must be prepared for the financial and time costs. It’s easier for parents of children who go to school - they shift all responsibility to the school, and nothing concerns them.

How much time and money will homeschooling require from parents?

It depends on the ambitions of the parents and on the degree of their desire to be directly involved in educational process.

You will need tutors in at least the following subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry and Russian. Also in specialized subjects for the selected university.

The school curriculum with tutors is mastered ten times faster. And it turns out not so expensive if you hire tutors in the 6th-7th grade.

Additional classes in sections and clubs. It all depends on the parents’ capabilities: you can enroll your child in free classes at municipal institutions, or you can pay for the most prestigious and expensive club in the city.

How to choose the right tutor?

For me, an important criterion is sincere love and good attitude towards children. In addition, the teacher should have his eyes “on fire” about his subject; he himself should be interested! I usually look for teachers by recommendations.

It is also important to find out what the cost of a lesson is for this tutor, and for how long he can give the school program in his subject. As a rule, 100-200 hours of study are enough to get a normal grade, 200-300 hours - for excellent knowledge of the subject.

Does the school somehow participate in the life of a homeschooled child?

School teachers visit only those children who are home-schooled for medical reasons. Usually these are children with disabilities.

If you are assigned to a school, then you are required to be provided with textbooks.

How to properly organize the day of a child who is studying at home?

If with schooling a child spends about 9 hours a day on school lessons and homework, then with home schooling the same amount of knowledge can be obtained in 2-3 hours. Imagine how much time a child has for extra sleep and walks!

In addition, there is no loss of time listening to other people's answers in class, establishing discipline in the classroom, or moving from class to class. The child is engaged in productive activities, spending very little time. For example, my daughter completes her six-month math workbook in a day and a half.

Therefore, there is no need to organize the day in any way. Of course, tutors come at certain times, there is a schedule for attending additional classes, clubs and sports sections. Specifically, there is no point in organizing classes at home according to the clock.

If a child is eager to go to school, of course, let him go. Don't deprive him of this experience. You can transfer your child to home schooling at any time.

If you decide something, then everything will work out!

(c) Interview with Olga Yurkovskaya for the deti-yar.ru project

interviewed by Lyubov Klimova

Debunking myths about the need for school

Why don't I send my children to school?

A strange question... I am rather perplexed why smart, educated city residents, especially those who have reached career heights and material security, break their children by innocently imprisoning them for eleven years in this System.

Yes, of course, in past centuries in the villages the Teacher was much more developed and financially secure, had a higher social position and level of culture than the children’s parents. And now?

Even then, the nobles did not send their children to schools, they organized education at home...

Why does a child need school and why does parents need it?

It is very convenient for working parents to put their child in a storage room under minimal supervision, consoling themselves with the fact that everyone does this. The position of non-working mothers with a wealthy husband looks more strange, who are so stressed by their own children that they even send them to after-school care... It seems that these children were given birth only as a way to provide for themselves financially, and if it were possible to send them to a boarding school without losing in money and public opinion, then almost all of them would do so...

A child almost never needs school. I have not yet met a single child who would want to continue going to school at the end of October instead of the holidays. Yes, of course, the child wants to socialize or play with friends, but not sit in class. That is, if you provide a child with comfortable communication outside of school, attending school completely loses its meaning for the child...

School doesn't teach kids anything

Now let's look at popular social myths that force parents to mindlessly maim their own children.

Myth one: school teaches (gives the child knowledge, education).

Modern urban children go to school already knowing how to read, write and count. No other knowledge acquired at school is used in adult life. The school curriculum consists of a haphazard collection of facts to be learned. Why remember them? Yandex will answer any questions much better. Those children who choose the appropriate specialization will study physics or chemistry again. The rest, after graduating from school, cannot remember what they were taught all these dreary years.

Considering that the school curriculum has not changed for many decades, and in it the child’s handwriting is much more important than the blind ten finger print on a computer keyboard, school does not give a child any truly useful knowledge and skills for further success in adult life. Even if we assume that it is precisely this set of facts that a child really needs for memorizing a school subject, it can be given ten times faster.

What do tutors do successfully, teaching a child in a hundred hours what the teacher did not teach in 10 years and a thousand hours...

In general, this is a very strange system, when a thousand hours are stretched over several years... Already at the institute, each subject is taught in larger blocks over six months or a year. And a very strange method of teaching, when children are forced to sit still and listen to something...

The experience of numerous parents of applicants shows that several years of studying a subject - over a thousand hours at school plus homework - do not help the student know the subject sufficiently to enter a good university. In the last two school years, a tutor is hired and re-teaches the child this subject - as a rule, one hundred hours is enough to be among the best in the class.

I believe that a tutor (or computer programs, interesting textbooks with lively text, educational films, specialized clubs and courses) can be taken from the very beginning, in grades 5-6-7, without torturing the child, with this thousand hours of time A in the free time the child can find something he likes, INSTEAD OF SCHOOL.

School interferes with children's socialization.

Myth two: school is needed for the socialization of a child.

Socialization is the process of an individual’s assimilation of patterns of behavior, psychological attitudes, social norms and values, knowledge, skills that allow him function successfully in society. (Wikipedia)

What can be considered success in society? Who do we consider successful people? As a rule, they are accomplished professionals who make good money from their craft. Respected people who do their work very well and receive decent money for it.

In any field. Perhaps entrepreneurs – business owners.

Top managers. Major government officials. Prominent public figures. Popular athletes, artists, writers.

These people are distinguished primarily by ability to achieve your goals. Speed of thinking. Ability to act. Activity. Strength of will. Perseverance. And, as a rule, they put in a lot of effort before achieving results. They know how not to leave things halfway. Excellent communication skills - negotiations, sales, public speaking, effective social relations. The ability to make decisions instantly and act immediately. Stress resistance. Fast, high-quality work with information. The ability to concentrate on one thing, discarding everything else. Observation. Intuition. Sensitivity. Leadership skills. The ability to make choices and take responsibility for them. Sincere passion for your business. And not only with their own work - their interest in life and cognitive activity is often no worse than that of preschoolers. They know how to give up unnecessary things.

They know how to find good teachers (mentors) and quickly learn things that are important for their development and career.

They think systematically and easily take a meta-position.

Does school teach these qualities?

Rather, on the contrary...

All the years of school, it is obvious that there is no question of any sincere passion - even if a student manages to become interested in a couple of subjects, they cannot be chosen by abandoning the uninteresting. They cannot be studied in depth at school. Most often they are carried away outside of school.

Achieving a result is of no interest to anyone - the bell has rung, and you must quit what you haven’t finished and go to the next lesson. For all 11 years, a child is taught that the result is not necessary and not important. Any business should be abandoned halfway through the call.

Speed of thinking? When targeting average or weak students? When teaching with outdated, ineffective methods? With complete intellectual dependence on the teacher, when only thoughtless repetition of previously stated facts is allowed? A student with a high speed of thinking is simply not interested in lessons. At best, the teacher simply does not interfere with his reading under his desk.

Strength of will? Activity? The system will make every effort to make the child obedient. “Be like everyone else. Keep your head down,” is this the life wisdom that is needed for adult success in society?

They don’t teach high-quality work with information at school - most average students simply do not understand the text they read, and cannot analyze and formulate the main idea.

Responsibility for choice? So students are not given a choice...

Negotiations and public speaking? Development of intuition and sensitivity?

Leadership skills? Ability to act? Not included in the program at all...

The ability to give up the unnecessary needs to be replaced with the opposite ability to endure the unnecessary and useless for years.

Instead of internal reference, children develop emotional dependence on the often biased opinions of others, such as the teacher. This occurs against the backdrop of complete control of the student. A child does not have the right to express his own opinion with impunity.

Unfortunately, one can only dream about all the good teachers in school. More often than not, few urban parents are less educated and socially successful than teachers to prefer a teacher as a role model. With modern teachers, the so-called “double negative selection” occurs: first, those who were unable to score points at a more prestigious university enter teacher training colleges, and then only the least initiative graduates remain to work at the school, the rest find higher-paid and more prestigious jobs.

In general, the only society that is similar to school in adult life is prison. But it’s easier for the prisoners there than for the children: they are of different ages, with different interests, they are not forced to do uninteresting things. There they understand why they are being punished. They will be released sooner than after 11 years, if they have not received a sentence for murder.

Is the school classroom a model of adult society? This is not true - I personally do not live in a world where all people are the same age... Where they have no common interests... Where I am forced to obey an underpaid loser... Where no matter how passionate I am about a task, after 45 minutes of a call I would have to quit it without achieve the result and run to another room...

Adults have a choice: what to do (and you can always change jobs and bosses), with whom to communicate, what to consider as a result, what interests to have.

IN modern world The upbringing, education and socialization of a child is the responsibility of the parents. When we send our child to school, we simply arrange things so that he does not disturb us. We are improving our lives now at the expense of his future career and happiness.

An alternative to educational traditions

How to harm a child with an assessment

Very often, parents consider the grades their child brings home from school as an important indicator of their parental success. And instead of giving responsibility for their children’s studies, such mothers and fathers make a serious mistake. They try to convince the child that his entire value is determined by the assessments of other people's aunts. What strangers think about him turns out to be more important than what kind of child he is, what inclinations and interests the child has.

When parents convey to their children that the external assessment of strangers is the most important thing in a child’s life, then this is a way to raise a child insecure, without his own opinion and his own choice.

If we scold children for bad grades, and even more often we scold not for bad grades, but for not the highest grades, then in fact we are trying to convince the child that his entire value is determined by other people’s grades, and what strangers think about him , is more important than what kind of child he is. As soon as we begin to make complaints to a child about the fact that he does not have the maximum grade, we immediately begin to do our best to form this dependence on other people’s opinions, contrary to our own.

What is good about the school system for the state and why is it bad for those parents who want something more for their children than working on an assembly line or working as a public sector employee? Precisely because at ten or eleven years old a child is taught that his opinion about himself is not significant. Only the opinion of strangers, expressed in the form of an assessment, matters.

It doesn't matter what the score is. “Excellent”, “good”, “satisfactory” - any of the assessments shifts the focus of our child’s attention from his, what is called in psychology, “internal reference”, that is, from his reliance on his own knowledge about himself, to his own opinion about himself, on his own opinion about some necessary important and necessary matters, on the contrary, on the fact that the child believes that he does not mean anything, the only thing that matters is what others think about him.

It turns out that by being too attentive to someone else’s assessment of our child, we are essentially betraying him and making him a loser. As a result, an adult does not have his own opinion; someone else’s assessment is more important to him than his own. Adult fear of negative evaluation is usually formed during the school years - by parents who attach inappropriately great importance to school grades.

Although in reality almost all adults understand perfectly well that at the age of 30 it does not matter whether you got a C in chemistry in the eighth grade does not in any way affect your adult success. Or an excellent grade in physics does not guarantee you love and success in business when you are 40.

So why harm your children?

How do “children without school” and their mother live?

I decided to collect in one note my answers to the numerous questions that I am asked after articles about the shortcomings of the school and alternative learning at home.

I don't have an answer to the question of whether personalized learning is right for you and your children. I DON'T KNOW. I don't know you.

Homeschooling is not for everyone. A small percentage of the population of any country is capable of taking responsibility for the development of their children. Most parents find it easier to send their child somewhere rather than do it themselves. Particularly because even a parent-manager or teacher finds it much more difficult to motivate his own child than the adults subordinate to him.

And not all parents have enough resources to provide their children with a good educational environment.

2. The experience of countries where homeschooling is the norm statistically confirms the benefits of homeschooling. As a result, home-schooled American children enter the best universities. And in the future they receive many times larger salaries. This is not least because parents invest much more effort into their children at home. Therefore, grown children build more successful careers.

3. It won't be easy right away. In the beginning you will have to go through a lot:

1) Step over your fears: “how I won’t be like everyone else,” “what if I’m depriving my child of something,” “I can’t handle it,” “they will judge me,” “it’s very expensive and takes a lot of time,” and etc.

2) “Fight the battle” with relatives and school administration in order to enroll the child in an individual plan.

3) Constantly listen to moral teachings from relatives and people around you about how wrong you are living. And their dire predictions for your children.

4) Organize it yourself educational process.

5) Pay for tutors and spend much more time with the child.

My experience and the experience of my friends (excellent tutors, teachers “from God”) shows that the child does not perceive his own mother and “does not listen.” You can teach strangers anything. But their own children learn only through joint activities (games, conversations, discussions, activities, etc.). The format of “lessons” with your own children, as a rule, does not work. Teaching your children (not through joint activities, but through lessons) is much more difficult than being a teacher to strangers. The child is used to a different relationship with his mother.

You can, of course, teach your child yourself. But personally, a tutor costs me less (I earn more during this time than if I tutored the children myself). And it’s more efficient in terms of time - she explains faster and gets results than I can. For a day of my work, I pay for a year of work for a tutor with my children. And freed from the need to engage in uninteresting and unnecessary school routine. There are a million more useful and interesting things to do together than teaching school lessons to your child. I prefer to be an authority for a child in the field of my professional knowledge, rather than stand over his soul with dictations or demand that he tell me the rules from the textbook. So it’s better to save your nerves and earn more during this time. Hire a tutor - “someone else’s aunt” will teach you school subjects faster.

And involve your child in your adult affairs. Give him a feasible job within your profession, for example. Send them to different clubs. Download educational games.

A tutor comes to my daughters once a week for 1.5 hours - that’s enough. Children read a lot on their own and it is easy for them to learn.

5. The ability for self-development is killed at school. IN kindergarten Children are endlessly interested in everything and develop very quickly. By leaving your child to study at home, you maintain his cognitive activity.

6. It’s also very convenient to motivate a child to perform independent tasks“the most terrible threat”: “If you don’t do the test on time, you will be removed from the individual plan. And you will be required to go to school every day.” It works very well... Especially if the rest of the motivation is “managed” by the tutor. For example, my daughters really don’t want to upset her, so they quickly do all the tasks before she arrives.

7. On individual plan(in Belarus) in elementary school, children are required to pass tests or tests in the main subjects: Russian and Belarusian (language and literature), mathematics, the world around them, English. Then other items will be added. You can do this at least once every quarter. It’s more convenient for me and easier for the children to do this once a week as the class progresses through the program - the teacher gives assignments home, checks the completed ones, calls them to the board in those lessons that my children agreed to attend (and persuades them to go more often - they don’t want to at all, despite continuous praise and 10's). They write some of the tests in class so that the teacher makes sure that they themselves know, and not someone at home decided for them. Basically, they do a weekly program in 1.5 hours with a tutor. This doesn’t concern me in any case, my favorite phrase is: “4 (out of 10) is an excellent rating so as not to be removed from the individual plan. Enough!!!"

To apply for an individual plan, you only need an application from the documents. But in order for the school director and teacher council to allow it (nowadays in Belarus it is at their discretion), you need to communicate with them normally, tell them why your child cannot attend school every day. The easiest way is to register at the school where children are already studying on an individual basis (call and find out at your RONO). They need clear arguments: about the child playing professional sports during lessons, about parents’ endless business trips or generally living outside the country part of the time... Some simple explanation that it’s not school that’s bad, but simply not the opportunity to go every day (but we’ll try to go to the maximum) ;)

Teachers are comfortable with such children - they are in the class, and there is no need to teach it; it is easier to teach when there are fewer children

For a really good relationship, you can invite your own teacher to be a paid tutor once a week (ours refused, saying that she couldn’t take money and tutor when the child was already keeping up :))

8. With the current focus on lagging and average children, even the most excellent teacher does not have the opportunity to work normally with “strong” children. My daughters are very, very bored in class: I decided that I and all my neighbors had nothing to do. But half the class can't cope. I don’t even understand what children are doing in elementary school, if instead of 25 hours mine study for 1.5 hours a week with a tutor - and they have 9 and 10.

The daughters are in the class. Each morning they have the choice to attend all classes. Do not want. At all. They prefer to stop by for a while to take tests and take new ones.

9. Grades are not important to me at all. No way. And most of all, I want to protect children from this school assessment - as I wrote, it harms real achievements in adult life.

It harms both excellent students and poor students. Wrong criteria from the wrong results and by the wrong people...

When a child wins (or loses) in sports, this is the correct assessment - based on the result. But not a school grade.

There is no way to make a real assessment in schooling. It doesn't have everything practical application and measurable results.

If my daughter manages to read half a book while her neighbor at her desk reads one page, then this is not a reason to give her a 10 - there is no result for her. This is an indicator that she has been reading for 6 years, has taken speed reading courses and has read several hundred books. But my neighbor hasn’t even read ten books; she learned to read at school and has been reading for two years using a poor method.

Therefore, assessment in such a situation harms both girls (especially self-esteem) - it is not their results (but the results different approach to teaching their mothers).

My rating is that a child is busy with something with interest and passion – 10. ;)

And all attempts at assessment are a failure! ;)

For example, a beadwork circle - each girl makes her own products (she chooses what she wants from the samples) - the result is clear, the process is a pleasure. And no grades are needed... I like this kind of activity for children - each at their own pace, some will make one product, some 10, some simple, some super complex... And why else are there grades?

Or an animation club (at the computer).

It’s all free with us - and much more useful and fun than school lessons...

I am categorically against assessments - life will appreciate the result, why traumatize and spoil childhood...

10. School subjects don’t bother me at all - I sincerely don’t understand why it is necessary to teach exactly such a volume of just such disciplines (I would formulate the program completely differently, now we are not in an agricultural or industrial age, but very much in the information age).

Parents still hire tutors before entering a university - I prefer to do this right away (grades 6-7 or whenever), without first torturing the children with a thousand hours of incorrect study of the subject. In just 100-200 hours of interesting individual lessons, the child will know the subject better than the school teacher;) saving 1000 hours for more exciting activities than sitting in class;)

Studying with tutors can be replaced with free clubs in the relevant field. Or preparatory courses at BSU - it’s inexpensive.

My and my friends’ children go to almost all of my and my friends’ clubs either for FREE or for a nominal fee.

11. My children cannot have any problems with mathematics thanks to chess, handling Belarusian money.

With humanities subjects after speed reading courses (later we will go through advanced levels), the issue is closed up to and including institute

My children read a lot, so they write correctly - there is a direct relationship.

That is, there is simply nothing for daughters to do at school - out-of-school teaching methods allow them to absorb a larger amount of information several tens (or hundreds) times faster.

School is nothing more than a storage room for children. My children can spend a good time at home too

12. A child’s ability to be in society is best developed in “yard companies.” When interaction occurs without boundaries and without adult control. This could be a group of children with a grandmother in the village or at the dacha, in a sanatorium or pioneer camp, after a club or school, at competitions, and so on. The point is that during 10 minutes of recess under the supervision of teachers, the child’s ability to interact with other people does not develop as well as in a freer environment. And we spend at least 5 hours every day doing this... For what?! There is always an alternative: as a child, I made more friends in the company of chess and in the yard. Moreover, in sports sections There is almost no risk of being bullied, as often happens at school.

13. About the teachers.

I have never seen a single argument proving that highly paid, successful people work in modern Belarusian schools. The fact that 30-40 years ago some of you had a “star” staff of teachers in individual schools - has no relation to the current situation. We grew up in a different time, when everyone's salaries were approximately equal. With other teachers - respected people in society. Now everything is different.

With modern teachers, the so-called “double negative selection” occurs: first, those who were unable to score points at a more prestigious university enter teacher training colleges, and then only the least initiative graduates remain to work at the school, the rest find higher-paid and more prestigious jobs.

For me, isolated examples of wonderful people among teachers of past centuries are never an argument for me to send my children to be “scrapped” in modern system Belarusian school education. I absolutely don’t see the relationship between Janusz Korczak and the students of the pedagogical university who did not get the passing grade for admission to a more prestigious institute... And then, according to assignment, they teach poor children what they themselves don’t really know... They creep before the administration, they step on their own beliefs every day, they are guided by their fears, they complain on the sidelines and still obediently fulfill everything that is required of them outside the scope of the contract...

I can't stop seeing that most of the teachers have stopped growing professionally. Many of these women do not in the best possible way personal life has developed - and this is transmitted to the children... And teachers in schools remain at their jobs not because this is their calling and every hour of work is a joy to them, but rather out of despair: all these “I’ll work until I retire” or “what am I I can still"...

I can respect people for their actions and actions. For strength of character, for will. I see no reason to treat with anything other than indifference to whiners who do nothing to improve their lives, who pompously rant, blaming more successful people, but even their envy does not help them start doing something with themselves and their lives.

And I don’t want my children to spend their childhood listening to ideology and other delightful activities...

14. Of course, there are exceptions. Isolated cases. But out of dozens of teachers, how many “exceptions” will teach your child, especially in grades 5-11? And what should the students of the other teachers do? And what should parents answer when their child asks: “Mom, why does the teacher yell at us all the time?” Do you have any other answer other than: “Because I’m unsuitable!”???

15. I proceed from the concept that society pays for the work of each person in accordance with the BENEFIT brought by the person: if we take away from the “good” forcibly inflicted on schoolchildren the harm that teachers cause by imposing discipline, ideology, equalization and other delights of school, then labor Most teachers are assessed quite adequately. Or even half of the teachers may have a negative value, that is, they are overpaid...

16. Each person chooses for himself: where and with whom he works, how much and how he earns, what his life is filled with. Teachers themselves CHOSE to shove unclaimed, unnecessary knowledge into unmotivated people for a shameful salary. The same goes for saleswomen and assembly line workers: these people CHOOSE not to learn and not to grow.

My friends and I earn decent money: but we are all constantly learning, at any age.

I spend more annually on my education than the average annual salary in the country. And your time. Despite three children and work. I read hundreds of professional books every year, listen to audio courses while driving, and watch hundreds of hours of video courses - all of this is available on the Internet for free. They prefer to watch TV. That's why I shouldn't sympathize their small salary and low status!!! What did they THEMSELVES do to improve their lives???

We are colleagues with teachers: TEACHERS. But I don’t have to bear all their burdens and not be a “respected person in society.” Because I don’t hold on to the “bet”, but have taken shape Individual entrepreneur And I'm responsible myself for their income level.

I do not have such pride as to try to become a TEACHER for children who are forced to be in the same room with me. I prefer to teach people who care and need what I show. For whom what they receive from me will IMPROVE their lives. It will be useful and will be used.

I respect tutors: these people don’t sit and whine about how little they are paid and how badly they are treated... They EARN EARNINGS!!!

17. I was taught and taught now by people who earn more per day than their annual salary school teachers. Everything I can and know (that I use in life), I received from outside school walls. I can't remember a single teacher from all my schools from whom I would receive at least something that I use in my life now.

18. In teaching my children, I prefer to use the findings and methodological materials of business trainers and management consultants - this is closer to me professionally than methodological developments Belarusian teachers... ;)

19. Personally, I have nothing to do with the school education system. Just a mom who chose to homeschool her children. I don't care about government policy. I am not fighting for “world peace.” Everything suits me. As long as they don't interfere. I am sure that if every person takes care of his family and his business/work with maximum dedication, then the life of the entire society will be much better than from endless “talking shops” and demagoguery. I have neither the time nor the desire to participate in political discussions.

20. I don’t consider myself a role model, God forbid - I’m not at all drawn to this narcissism;) I do not and will not have a goal to please EVERYONE. I live my life, raise my children. I wish the same for everyone. I write my thoughts and my experiences with my children. Other parents will have different experiences.

21. I willingly answer questions like “how to do this?” or “how are you doing?” But I am not tolerant of evaluative statements about my inconsistency with other people’s ideals. As a rule, I remove aggressive evaluative judgments addressed to me. And I immediately click “block” those inadequate people who allow themselves such ridiculous behavior.

Why won't modern school change anytime soon?

When I hear how education officials begin to scold, I am always surprised. If we consider the Ministry of Education as a business structure, then they work great - the customer pays money for the desired result, and for years they clearly deliver the paid product in accordance with the “technical specifications”.

Try to forget the demagoguery and rhetorical speeches of officials. Think about what two functions are performed by a school commissioned and paid for by the state? Yes, right. First of all, children should not interfere parents work for the state (if not work as a public sector employee, then at least pay taxes). To do this, children must be safely supervised during the working day. In principle, the school does not care whether the child can use the knowledge acquired at his desk in real life. Our schools are responsible only for the physical safety of children.

Secondly, graduates should fill empty jobs. Who is the state missing? What positions are often vacant? Artists? Writers? Actresses? Directors? Singers? Of course not. The school is implementing a national goal: to produce standard socialized robots to work as officials and factory workers. And the Ministry of Education is doing an excellent job with this task.

Basically, the state has a problem with filling the most “non-prestigious” places - it needs workers and state employees. That is, the school is faced with the task of creating “dumb” personnel during the training process for unfilled vacancies with low-paid routine work. And the school copes with this task perfectly.

The way of teaching that we have as a given does not burden children intellectually, but, on the contrary, discourages them from learning and kills cognitive activity. High-quality learning is only possible through living and doing it yourself. All this information noise, called lessons at school, is not learning, but a waste of time and the deliberate “dumbing down” of the child.

Children need real-life activities that are fun and understandable. An experience that can be reproduced with one’s own hands is important for a child. Take, for example, chemistry or physics - the most boring subjects in school. However, in Moscow there is the “Professor Nicolas Show”, demonstrating physical and chemical experiments at children's parties and birthdays. The children are delighted - they are interested in this clear and visual form of learning.

The essence of our educational culture is simple: the school curriculum, to put it mildly, is outdated, and the skills and knowledge acquired do not at all correspond to what a child really needs in life, and even more so does not correspond to the necessary skills of an adult - in a well-paid job or in business. At the same time, the school curriculum is so easy and primitive that it can be done with the help of modern techniques teaching is mastered by a smart child in a much shorter period of time than allotted for it. Therefore, it is easier for more developed children to go through it without entering into confrontation with the existing system, but necessary knowledge receive independently or with the help of interested adults.

Let's look at exactly how education is organized at school from the point of view of obtaining the result the state needs - training a worker for an assembly line at a factory or training a minor official.

What is assembly line work? These are the same type of routine operations that have no final goal. The worker does them mechanically, without thinking. Creative thinking and free will are prohibited. Similarly, in school it is forbidden to solve problems not according to the scheme, but in a new way. You must do everything as it is written in the textbook. The child must give answers to questions, clearly repeating them after the teacher, without expressing his opinion under pain of a bad grade.

The start of work, breaks, and end of work are strictly regulated - both at the factory and at school. All children should be equally “working” - they study the same disciplines at the same speed. The manifestation of a child’s personal characteristics is prohibited or condemned.

The teaching methodology is designed to “dumb down” children through obedience, to accustom the child to the routine repetition of primitive operations.

School lessons consist of a complete waste of time. They are making noise, they are seated - it is necessary to quiet the whole class, several minutes pass until the teacher calms everyone down. We opened the textbooks - it will take a few minutes until everyone finds the right page. The teacher repeats the same thing from lesson to lesson and asks the children the same thing.

The main forces of teachers are spent on teaching children to automatically obey, to work exactly on cue, to mechanically repeat what they have learned.

Thus, in 11 years, the state manages to create socialized “robots” out of approximately 90% of children, willing to do physical work or routine “mechanical” pseudo-intellectual labor every day for a small salary of a public sector employee. Which is the second function of the school besides the “storage room”.

Our statesmen are not able to foresee the near future. So why does the state need to change anything in the education system if the existing system, in their opinion, copes with the assigned tasks perfectly?

What does the future hold for our children?

IN last years the world is changing at tremendous speed. We are bombarded with information, new technologies are constantly being invented, and our lives are almost incomparable to the lives of our ancestors. Society has changed so much that the time-tested recipes “how to live correctly” from our grandmothers and great-grandmothers no longer work.

Their parenting recipes did not work for our mothers, even in raising our generation. Moreover, they cannot work on our children. And if we want our children not to get lost in this world, so that they can act normally, build a career or their own business, create happy families, then we need to do something differently.

Let's go back to nineteen fourteen - a hundred years ago. How did any peasant family live? “The horse slowly climbs up the mountain,” and a six-year-old child is a full-fledged labor unit. Mom doesn’t have to think about his education, his self-realization, or unlocking his personal potential. Everything is fine with them: he is a man at six years old, the second man in the family, he carries brushwood. And he will live like this all his life. And everything is fine with my mother, she doesn’t need to take her to classes or pay for a tutor - life is good.

As soon as we talk about people who in those years wanted to give their children more than a difficult peasant fate, for example, about nobles, then household appliances replaced by a cook and a maid; they didn’t even find tutors for the child, but hired foreign tutors with accommodation. And after home education, the children went to an elite lyceum with highly paid teaching staff.

If you take Soviet times, our grandmothers were lucky to have our mothers - everything was clear and understandable. There was a school next to the house. Or the child could strain himself and enter the best gymnasium, then the university. If a child “didn’t have the desire” to go to college, he, oddly enough, after vocational school, earned more at the factory than an engineer with higher education.

And it was clear what and how to teach children. The parents’ task was quite simple: to get them into a better school and help them get into a more prestigious institute, after which the child’s life would automatically settle normally. What to do with children was completely clear in the Soviet Union - the child would finish school, graduate from a university and be a respected member of society.

Unfortunately, now graduating from any Russian university no longer gives anyone any guarantees. But the Russian school will be of little help to those dreaming of entering Harvard.

And parents who want success and happiness for their children have a problem: the world is changing very quickly. In a maximum of ten years, technology and robots will replace many routine operations associated with physical labor. There are already factories that employ two operators instead of a thousand workers. Two people control the robots, the rest is automated. Robots have been invented to replace the labor of cleaners, drivers, and workers. A number of professions will soon disappear, just as pagers recently disappeared.

All that remains is to reduce the cost of production, and routine low-paid physical labor will be transferred to technology. In 20 years, none of our children will be able to go to work as a janitor, worker or taxi driver, even if they want to. As soon as robots become cheaper as part of mass production, any entrepreneur will choose not to hire a worker, but to buy a robot that works three shifts, does not get sick and does not drink. The cost of purchasing a robot due to savings on salaries, sick leave and vacation pay will be recouped in a couple of years.

People who fail to become intellectually developed and creative will live on welfare, because simple physical work There will be practically nothing left for them. Technology now is significantly different from what it was 20 years ago. And in another 20 years, our children will have to live in a world where physical labor will be almost completely transferred to technology and robots.

The second type of work that will almost disappear in the expected future is routine intellectual work, gradually being replaced by computer programs. Thanks to IT technologies, where previously a thousand accountants were required, five, but highly qualified ones, will be enough, the rest will be calculated by a computer. Thanks to automation and the introduction of e-government systems, the need for officials will significantly decrease. The number of jobs with routine, non-creative work, previously considered intellectual, will be reduced tenfold due to IT technologies.

It is obvious that our statesmen cannot calculate the change in the structure of the labor market. They are unable to prepare in advance for that new world where there will be robots, where everything will be computer programs, where there will be no demand for low-skilled labor and for the modern level of education of schoolchildren and students in the post-Soviet space. And this trend is visible in Western countries – great amount workers have become unemployed, cannot find another job, sit on social benefits and die by drinking too much, because there is no meaning in life, no goals. Similarly, university graduates in these countries cannot find a job based on their diploma.

And either our children will receive a different education thanks to us, or we, with the help of school, will spend their childhood on knowledge and skills that were useful in the 19th century, but in 20 years will not even help the child simply find any job and feed himself. Yes, there will be individual brilliant children who will “make their way on their own.” But are you sure that your child will be one of them? Personally, I prefer to give my children the knowledge, skills and abilities that are in demand in the modern world.

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