"Remote control" buries universal education

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Against the background of the activation of digital specialists in education, the leading American analytical agency Pew Research Center and the heads of American educational organizations are sounding the alarm. According to their research, “distance learning” buries universal education, since low-income families simply cannot provide their children with an appropriate level of knowledge, cannot hire tutors and study with them enough time because of work or looking for it. But here Dmitry Medvedev said that “optimization of education” is for a long time.

Yesterday, while everyone was waiting for Vladimir Vladimirovich's speech, a battle broke out at the top of the power over one of the main factors of people's indignation with the "self-isolation" regime - distance learning. At first, the Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Dmitry Glushko seemed to reassure the parents, saying that distance learning would not replace the classical school, human contact is very important.

“We must remember and understand everything, it is especially important to convey to the parental community that distance education cannot replace the classical school. Unfortunately, in many regions today we observe such active work in parent communities for 7-10 days - information that absolutely distorts the work that is being done by our legislators and regional ministries of education and the federal ministry of education. They are trying to form a position that, allegedly, distance education will completely replace the classical school and we will never return there, "Glushko said at the session" The Economy of Knowledge during and after the crisis "within the framework of the Moscow International Education Fair (IMSO).

He noted that this is "absolutely not true." The Deputy Minister urged colleagues working in the regions in the education system to participate in ensuring that they

"they informed the parents, and sometimes even our colleagues in the education system, that it was simply impossible." "Classical education, classical school and human direct live contact are definitely needed, important, and it is key in the transfer of knowledge," Glushko stressed.

Unfortunately, our former prime minister, and now the chairman of United Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, slept through the deputy minister's speech and was not informed of his position. Therefore, literally a couple of hours later, he came out of the gloom and immediately got into all parental chats, saying that the distance education system does not work very well in a pandemic, but remote education is for a long time.

“The system of remote education, it seems to have existed in our country, but in reality, as we know, I talked with my fellow governors now, this system, it’s not working very well yet, to be honest. it worked fine, but in extreme conditions, when the pandemic came, it, of course, is only just taking shape. But we understand that this is a remote education, it, in all likelihood, can be for a long time, Medvedev is quoted by RIA Novosti …

Who these "we" are is not a secret. Dmitry Anatolyevich, German Oskarovich Gref and HSE have long been promoting the optimization of education with its transfer to online. All this will seriously reduce government spending on education - you don’t need so much money for repairs and construction of new schools, you don’t need to support so many teachers, you don’t need cooks and other staff at the school. Everyone is sitting at home, receiving assignments, watching videos, writing something, and the organizers master the budgets for the implementation of "modern" methods and write beautiful reports. Everyone is happy - the government is cutting spending, the liberals can promote their agenda without any Navalny, but directly through the screen. It is no secret that among the teachers there are still a bunch of "quilted jackets" who teach history both "incorrectly" and literature, but here, everything is in openwork - the role of a teacher is reduced to a minimum - he gave an assignment and checked it. In general, Soros's blue dream of the times of the "holy 90s" is to transfer Russian children to the "correct views."

True, there is one significant minus there, which we are trying to silence, but is widely discussed in the West, including in the recent main reference point of our liberals - the United States. It is where distance education began to be introduced a month earlier, now at the level of the largest think tanks, moreover, not crazy like Stratfor, but more than adequate, like perhaps the most sane and one of the most influential American think tanks, which deals with research on social issues. public opinion, demographic trends in the world - Pew Research Center, come to the conclusion that distance education is not for the poor. That is, the transition to "distance learning" can bury such a thing as universal literacy.

So, after a month of telecommuting in the United States, the Pew Center conducted a large-scale survey of several thousand parents and teachers, what they can summarize. And it turned out that parents from low-income families are most worried and admit that their children are lagging behind in school amid school closures due to the spread of COVID-19.

“About two thirds (64%) express at least some concern that their children are falling behind in school, and 28% say they are extremely worried (about falling educational levels). Such data are provided by a new study by the analytical center Pew Research Center. Parents with lower incomes are more concerned than parents in higher income groups that their children may potentially be behind in school.

The results of this analysis are based on responses from 94% of parents of schoolchildren who reported that their children's schools are currently under quarantine. The study comes at a time when education experts warn that student learning could be harmed by widespread school quarantines,”US analysts said in a study across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Where is this parental concern expressed, and why do children from poor and middle families not receive the same education as the middle class and rich? It turns out that everything is simple - although parents of all segments of the population try to explain lessons to children and look for additional materials, they do not have the means to hire good teacher-tutors who could explain physics or chemistry. But the main thing is that in conditions when 27 million people have lost their jobs and the question is not about paying a couple of thousand dollars for a history teacher, but finding a job in order to pay off loans and not swell with hunger, parents simply cannot pay 7- 10 hours a day for classes with children, especially if there are several of them. For those parents who have not been fired, the issue of work is even more acute and what kind of distance school is there, when it is necessary to plow, remotely, or by hand, so that the manager does not send you to the company to the 27 million unemployed. Add to this the fact that the United States is one of the leaders in the number of single mothers and fathers in the world, which they were proud of not so long ago, telling how it is right that traditional marriage is dying.

“The parents themselves - or other adults in the family - also spend very different amounts of time teaching their children during quarantine. About 70% of parents claim that they or some other adult teach a large (25%) or some (44%) amount of knowledge to their children in addition to what is taught at school.

This experience varies somewhat depending on income level. On the one hand, parents with higher incomes are no more likely than other parents to claim that they or another adult in their household provide their children with additional education or resources beyond what is provided by the school (hiring tutors, independent additional classes). In income groups, only about a quarter of parents report that they provide a lot of additional education or resources, and about 40% in each group say that they provide some amount of such education. Meanwhile, about 40% of low-income parents admit that their children are lagging behind in school as a result of the events triggered by the coronavirus outbreak. For comparison, only 21% of middle-income parents and 17% of high-income parents say the same thing,”sums up the Pew Center.

"This is possibly the biggest challenge that public education has had to face in the more than four decades I have been doing this job."

- The Washington Post commented on the situation Michael Kasserly, executive director of the Council of Large Urban Schools, an organization that includes 76 of the largest urban public school systems in the country. He said that online learning probably isn't doing well for many underprivileged families.

“We are facing an educational disaster,” he added.

Now let's go back to our homeland. Are our problems so different from American ones and are the plans of the optimizers of our education so different? It is no secret that the distance school brings parents to hysterics and that psychological services have already been opened to help parents. It is no secret that parents cannot teach physics, chemistry, foreign languages at the teacher's level, as well as the fact that working parents in a crisis cannot devote 10 hours to classes, and because of the drop in income, they cannot hire tutors. to study subjects. It is also no secret that, with the exception of large cities, online lessons are rare, and learning comes down to dropping tasks and links by which children, either themselves or with their parents, must master the material as best they can. And yes, it's no secret that in the last month, among the most popular sites in search engines were sites with ready-made homework assignments - that is, there is no assimilation of the material, from the word at all.

And against this background, our "light-faced" optimizers, among which the main optimizer of medicine has now emerged (ie reduction of beds, closure of hospitals, reduction of medical staff and, most importantly, the massive closure of infectious diseases departments "like in the West") Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev and are promoting the initiative “Distance school is for a long time,” and for this, new GOSTs are being introduced.

Recall that shortly before her resignation, in December 2019, Vasilyeva was able to make a strong move by approving new federal state educational standards, which contain clear standards in terms of detailing and clarity of requirements for the subjects studied and the knowledge gained on them, as well as unification of the educational space (including.ch. - the introduction of uniform standards for textbooks). Liberals from NGOs, the Committee of Civil Initiatives (founded by ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin,the current leader is one of the main authors of the destructive program of the USSR's transition to a “market economy” (“500 days”), head of the Liberal Mission Foundation, HSE Academic Supervisor Yevgeny Yasin), no less liberal Guild of Language Arts, as well as an academician of the Russian Academy of Education, a member of the Council on human rights, the main ideologist of the "formation of tolerance attitudes" (he is also the chairman of the expert council of the Jewish Center for Tolerance) in Russian society, as well as the developer of the scandalous foresight project "Childhood-2030", which involves the destruction of all foundations of traditional education, families and the transformation of children in cyborgs brought up in incubators, - Alexander Asmolov. Now Asmolov and the company go further. Having “left” Vasilyeva and put in her place their creature in the form of a young “innovator” Kravtsov, they are implementing the FGOS 4.0 initiative, the main task of which is to completely dismantle the traditional system of assessing and assimilating knowledge fundamental to every person. All this must be considered from the perspective of the voluntary-compulsory transfer of all schools and many universities to online education under the pretext of the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier, HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov managed to glorify the global digital revolution generated by the coronavirus crisis. Even earlier, the methodological basis for this case was laid by the translators of the strategies of the World Bank, OECD and the UN - foresight specialists Pavel Luksha and Dmitry Peskov. Now big figures from the Government have finally appeared in this team, namely, the Minister of Education Kravtsov in person, the rector of the Moscow State Pedagogical University Igor Remorenko, the president of the Russian Open Society Yury Zinchenko. All of these characters, as well as the famous sodomite from the HSE Institute of Education Isak Frumin, took part in the Eureka-Vanguard-2020 network conference, designed to approve the standards for the new FGOS 4.0.

Do they understand that “optimization of education” is even more terrible than “optimization of medicine” because with general illiteracy in the event of a new epidemic, there simply will be no where to get so many professional doctors, which saved us today from a general pestilence, as in the same “developed” countries West? Do they understand that even the current situation threatens with a drop in the level of education, which is still in the hands of the same States, and the new FSES is a disaster, the way to Africa? If not all, then very many understand very well, because it was not for this that they “worked” for 30 years over the collapse of the Union and its legacy, so that our grandchildren would remember Gagarin and know that it was their ancestors who drove the “civilized” conquerors across their Europe. And the most important thing is not for these Gagarins and Matrosovs to appear with us again.