I’m leaving school because I don’t want to participate in this violence and lack of respect

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Я ухожу из школы, потому что не хочу участвовать в этом насилии и неуважении к человеку

The teacher of literature — on why he decided to leave secondary school

Literature teacher at the Moscow school 2009 Artem Question decided to quit school and never return. Why he thinks school is a place of violence and disrespect for the man, he told the publication “Billboard.Daily”.

Question also acts as a methodologist in the project “Teacher Russia” and teaches at the HSE. In secondary school, he worked for four years and made a firm decision to leave.

“I’m leaving school because I don’t want to participate in this violence and lack of respect. And openly resist him no longer want. And it climbs from all cracks: from toilets nezakryvayushhihsya booths and often missing toilet paper, dining room with unappetizing food, from overloaded schedules, claims in appearance, rudeness, security guards and cleaners, with out spoiling the clothes and furniture nezakryvayushhihsya shared changing rooms. And most importantly, moral violence and disrespect is the basis of communication with the student”, explains Question.

And it’s not just the rudeness and discomfort of the household, the school system is enforced, he said. In this system you have to play by the rules, follow the roles, “for some students the role of the C student, an a student — was fixed before release”. If you’re a student, what you “quietly and earnestly, the easier it is to hold on.” “The hierarchy is clear: the subject teacher — head teacher — head teacher — Director,” — explains the Question. When he was a student, school was a territory of fear. “Not everywhere, of course, it was safe lessons, but absolutely certain — daily and relentlessly — he says. Even on weekends I was thinking about school days, about the rules, about the game, which almost none of us wanted to play, but played, not because it was scary.” But when the Question became a teacher, then decided that I would be able to choose to follow the rules or not. “In fact turned out differently: the admin of the game I could only be in a private lesson,” he admits.

He tried to overcome this system — canceled assessment for high school students. “Assessment is just a punitive tool of encouragement. The teacher uses it as a tool of manipulation. And often puts the estimate is not for the knowledge and adherence to the rules and according to Raleigh: Trinity, middling, excellent,” says Question. Instead of marks, he made points as in the quest. “For any activity (read a book, an essay, learned a poem, a movie review) a student received points. He chose himself what tasks he is to perform, and which are not, understood how to get points, and also knew what lesson he can just relax,” he explains. The magazine estimates he had to put nominally in the final marks, he “exhibited what I thought was fair.”

“I began to look askance some teachers, says Question. So I change play table tennis or go to the gym to throw the ball, they have already resigned. Repeal of assessments and the brazen column of fives in the electronic journal, I suspect some seemed offensive. I was breaking the rules. Even so — I suggested an alternative. Created the conflict. Many stopped to say Hello”.

Now he feels a “deep sense of disappointment about the fact that the modern appearance of secondary schools is a”: rudeness, nezakryvayushhihsya toilets and a set of phrases like: “When a head start to think?”.

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