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  • 26.03.2020

Officials are increasingly losing their sense of reality, and they communicate with fellow citizens more and more cynically and shamelessly. © Photo from government.ru

At the Territory of Meanings forum, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, when asked about the low salaries of teachers, answered that a teacher is a vocation, and whoever wants to earn money could become a businessman. The head of government also suggested that the energetic teacher would find an opportunity "somehow, so to speak, to earn something else." These words of the prime minister aroused the indignation of the Russians. A petition immediately arose on the Internet calling for the resignation of the head of government. In the ten hours since the creation of the petition, the number of signatories has exceeded 50,000 people.

Dmitry Medvedev's statement about the small salaries of teachers as a allowable rate unacceptable for the prime minister, says the director of school No. 4 in the city of Nelidov in the Tver region, Sergei Pogodin. As the teacher told a Rosbalt correspondent, for this reason he signed an online petition calling for Medvedev's resignation. “I believe that the prime minister cannot talk like that about teacher salaries:“ if you want to receive money, then go into business ... ”, Pogodin emphasized.

The director noted that teachers in schools, indeed, earn unacceptably little. “The teacher's salary is now 7,800 rubles. In order for teachers to receive an “average” salary, they have to take two or more rates,” Sergey Pogodin stated.

Dmitry Medvedev's words about the "normality" of small teachers' salaries among teachers are perceived as another slap in the face, said Andrey Rudoy, ​​a member of the council of the interregional trade union "Teacher". “Everyone is already used to spitting from the authorities. This is just another slap in the face that will be accepted,” Rudoy stated.

The teacher emphasized that from an economic point of view, the proposal for teachers to go into business is absurd. “The structure of society is such that there is no place on the market for so many businessmen. Teachers make up about one percent of the country's population. Even if they go to small business the market will simply not accept them. Moreover, one can recall the statistics that one out of forty business enterprises that start working survives. But even if teachers go into business, who will teach children? After all, there are enough problems in education. Of course, Medvedev's statement is meaningless in all respects: both from an economic point of view and simply from a human point of view,” Rudoy said.

Dmitry Medvedev's words testify to the government's course towards the commercialization of everything and everything, including the education sector, a representative of the Civil Initiative for free education» Nikolai Sosnov. As the social activist said, the school is more and more involved in commercial circulation and this harms education.

“Business on schooling has been going on for a long time. Thanks to the reforms of the last decade, such as the USE, FZ-83 or new law about education, under business on formally free education summed up the legislative framework. It is now legal to make money from public schooling. Medvedev's words only confirm this trend. The head of government clearly indicated: the authorities want to see businessmen in the school, and those who cannot or who do not like it, let them sit quietly and do not ask for an increase in salary, ”stated Nikolai Sosnov.

According to the public figure, the attempts of school leaders to "make money" often go beyond the bounds of both morality and laws. “For example, only recently we were sent a detailed story about how the director of a district school rented out its walls for advertising. Billboards advertising women's underwear were to be installed on the building. The situation was tracked in time and sorted out "under the rug." Another recent example. In a rural school, a paid weightlifting club was organized, ostensibly for schoolchildren. In fact, under the guise kids club there was a commercial hall for adults, and the money went no one knows where. And many more examples could be given. This is bad, because the director of the school should not be in business, he has other tasks. If he thinks only about how to get money, the educational process is over. It turns out like in a joke about a policeman who thought that they gave him a gun to “turn around”. And I'm talking about normal directors. But there are outright scammers, ”Nikolai Sosnov listed.

According to the public activist, a significant part of teachers will not do business at school, but those who follow this path can go very “far”. “Somehow I had to talk with one director, and he told me that in the advanced training courses he was taught how to make the school self-sustaining, and ideally profitable. All this is presented as a boon for the students, they say, there will be more money - the director will be able to do a lot for the school. In practice, business in educational institutions destroys the very foundations of the education system. The recent disclosure of a grandiose fraudulent scheme at the Penza Technological Institute, the arrest of the rector of the Far Eastern Federal University, regular criminal cases against school principals are the tip, but we do not see the iceberg. We will see only when Russia will fly into it on a grand scale and go to the bottom of the third world like the Titanic, because without a normal education system our country is doomed to vegetate, ”said Sosnov.

Indeed, news about teachers' attempts to "earn money" can often be found in sections of the criminal chronicle or under the heading "Scandals". And this is not surprising - teachers at the institutes were not prepared for business, and people with an entrepreneurial streak do not become teachers.

In Novocheboksarsk, a young Russian language teacher worked as a dancer in a nightclub. A parent of one of the schoolgirls was surprised to see her daughter's teacher on stage performing go-go. A mathematics teacher from a Moscow gymnasium in her free time earned money not only by tutoring, but also by demonstrating goods from a lingerie store. Pupils had the opportunity to see on the Internet their "strict teacher" in a negligee that was not at all strict. In Kaliningrad, the parents of kindergarten students learned that their music teacher is also known under the creative pseudonym Nastya Monpasier - the girl danced a striptease and provided intimate services to clients.

This spring, police officers in Novosibirsk detained two teachers alternately, a man and a woman. Their teaching professions were different, but the side jobs were similar: both were involved in the distribution of drugs. Their colleague from Kamensk-Uralsky also dealt in drugs, and in addition he also made homemade weapons. In the apartment of a music teacher in the class of wind instruments, law enforcement officers seized five homemade pistols.

School directors also sometimes find themselves in the dock, though more often for other crimes. While extortion of gifts by teachers is sometimes tolerated by society, school principals, as civil servants, are liable for bribes or embezzlement of school funds. And the director of school No. 11 in Voskresensk, Nina Medvedeva, who worked part-time as the head of the district election commission, several years ago ended up on trial for falsifying the election results at a polling station.

Director of the Institute of Globalization Problems Mikhail Delyagin criticized the premier's assertion that big money can be earned by going into business. A well-known economist recalled that only after the increase in social contributions in the country over half a million individual enterprises, and in recent years, support for small businesses has been reduced significantly.

“Business, if it is not a business of cutting budget money or an oligarchic business of exporting raw materials, feels very bad. Sending you into a business to make money is like sending you on a sex trip to a well-known small Peruvian town. When Dmitry Medvedev said that you need to earn money, he probably did not mean business. He said this for decency, but, most likely, he meant corruption, ”the expert noted.

Medvedev's refusal to discuss the inadmissibility of low salaries for teachers suggests that the government does not intend to implement the May decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, Delyagin believes. “But we are not talking about big earnings, but about human earnings that would allow teachers to live like human beings and make ends meet. According to Mr. Medvedev, a teacher should not receive money, which is enough for a normal life. Apparently, this is the fundamental position United Russia"and the government," Mikhail Delyagin stated.

According to the economist, the low salaries of teachers hit the entire development of the country. “This is an expression of complete contempt for Russia. A teacher is a person who creates a nation. It was said at one time that the battle of Sadovaya was won by a Prussian teacher, and the battle of Stalingrad was won by a Soviet teacher. United Russia and its leader Medvedev made sure that Russia would never win again,” Delyagin said.

Officials are increasingly losing their sense of reality, and they communicate with fellow citizens more and more cynically and shamelessly. Who or what will bring them to their senses?

Dmitry Remizov

Speaking at the Territory of Meanings forum, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev responded to a complaint about teachers' low salaries by saying that they chose this profession themselves. Statement by the head of government angered users social networks: they ridiculed Medvedev and tried to understand how to interpret the words of a man who occupies the second most important post in the state.

A teacher from Dagestan asked Medvedev about the low salaries of teachers. He asked to explain why young teachers in the region receive 10-15 thousand rubles, and the police - from 50 thousand.

The head of government began by talking about personal experience: he remembered that he received 90 rubles when he began teaching after graduating from the institute, and the salaries of policemen were much higher even then: a lieutenant, according to Medvedev, received 250 rubles. Every person has a choice, he concluded.

The prime minister also added that "a modern energetic teacher is able not only to receive the salary that he is entitled to according to the official schedule, but also to somehow earn something else," which many perceived as an approval of bribes in the field of education.

They also remembered that the prime minister at the beginning of his career taught civil and Roman law at the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University, then St. Petersburg State University.

Many of the comments concerned Medvedev himself.

The reaction to Medvedev's words that teachers, for the sake of higher incomes, should change their profession and go, for example, into business, was not long in coming. Outrage reigns in teacher publics on VKontakte. Gazeta.Ru publishes some teachers' comments about Medvedev's words.

Olga Ch., teacher from Voronezh:

“I myself am a teacher. Extremely outraged by the words of the Prime Minister, advising teachers to look for other earnings. The teacher performs the most important function in society: not only teaches, but also educates! It educates a person who is responsible to himself and to the Fatherland, ready to defend his homeland, appreciating the exploits and dedication of his ancestors, ready to benefit society. Many thanks to all the teachers who, in such difficult conditions in the field of education, continue their pedagogical activities!”

Anna K., teacher of physics in Mordovia:

“In principle, it is simply impossible to go into business in our small village. The whole business consists only in trading in the market, but even a teacher will not be able to combine his work. I have, for example, up to an hour or two lessons, then until four in the evening - extracurricular activities. After that, I come home, pick up my two children from kindergarten. While doing them, I check notebooks. And you still need to have time to write a plan outline for the next day. In total, I have 18 hours a week, there is also a class guide, and I am also the head of the laboratory. At the same time, my salary is 11,500 rubles, and with stimulating hands I get 16 thousand rubles. I don’t understand why this work cannot be paid more.”

Irina D., teacher from Moscow:

“I have long disliked the prime minister, but what was said today simply caused indignation. Honestly, I don’t want to return from vacation, knowing that I’m waiting again ... The children are holding me back, but every day less and less. As Tatyana Sanna from Fizruk said: “The teacher died in me.”

Alexander P., teacher from Nizhny Novgorod:

“It seems to me that Medvedev is provoking teachers and professors. I wanted to write a detailed analysis of the text of the speech of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation with my comments (as I can), and then it suddenly dawned on me: this is the reaction from teachers in social networks that the authorities are most likely waiting for. For what purpose, I don't know. Therefore, I will show maximum restraint and correctness. I will simply indicate my tough position on the issue raised: in employment contracts and job descriptions teachers (including mine) do not have the term "vocation". There are such words as "work", "duties", "rights", "responsibility", "law". And - oh horror! - "wage".

From the point of view of morality, the work of a teacher, of course, falls under the category of “vocation”, “gift”, “mission”, finally. But from the point of view of law and law, this is labor that must be paid, and paid adequately (Constitution of the Russian Federation, Article 7, Part 1). A teacher (teacher) is a profession that a person has spent time and effort to master. Got a qualification. And this profession can (and should!) be primarily not a lyrical vocation, but a very specific and legitimate means of subsistence.

Or if you write us down as saints, then at least save us, teachers, from the obligation to pay income tax of 13% (like the Russian Orthodox Church). For me personally, there will be a quite significant increase in money (although this money in itself is small even at two rates).

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the course of communication with the participants of the forum "Territory of Meanings" on Klyazma, he advised teachers complaining about low salaries to earn money in business. “I am often asked about teachers and lecturers. This is a calling, and if you want to earn money, there are a lot of great places where you can do it faster and better. The same business,” Mr. Medvedev said.

The Prime Minister's statement was a response to a question from a teacher from Dagestan about why in Russia the salaries of the security forces are so much higher than the salaries of teachers.

Medvedev said in response that when he worked as a teacher after graduating from university, he received 90 rubles a month, while novice policemen received 250 rubles each.

The Prime Minister's speech provoked a lively reaction in social networks - among the statements on this subject there were many critical remarks.

“Dmitry Anatolyevich confuses insipid with sweet. The teacher should not make ends meet, as he said in his speech. The teacher should not look for a way to earn money on the side. The teacher should work normally, comfortably. You can not give a damn about our profession, as, in fact, has been done for many years, but history shows that national security and teaching are very strongly interconnected, even more than with the security forces, ”said Teacher of the Year in an interview with the radio station“ Moscow Speaks ” -2009", teacher of physics at Noginsk school No. 5 Vadim Muranov.

“Separately interesting - in what miracle country did policemen receive 250 rubles each? I stood at the machine, overfulfilled the plan, and it didn’t always work out 250, and not for everyone. By the way, then I served in the police in another country. In 1992, my salary was 26 (twenty-six) US dollars, and in 1998 as much as 180 US dollars,” a well-known publicist and journalist wrote on his Facebook page. translator Dmitry "Goblin" Puchkov, a former officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

About "good mood and health"

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev owns a large number of phrases that people remember and have become almost aphorisms.

In May 2016, during a visit by the Russian Prime Minister to Crimea, Medvedev was approached by a pensioner who complained about the low level of pensions.

Answering the woman, the prime minister, in particular, said: “There is simply no money now. If we find money, we will index it. Hang in there, all the best to you, Have a good mood and health."

This saying immediately became part of folklore and has been walking around the country to this day.

Commenting this speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “I did not see Dmitry Anatolyevich say something like that about this. You can always either take a phrase from the context as such, or take it from that general conversation: everything can also coincide in words, but in spirit, the meaning, perhaps, can somehow be presented differently.

The head of state is absolutely right - it's just not about the most successfully constructed phrase. However, it is not in vain that the proverb says: “The word is not a sparrow, it will fly out - you won’t catch it!”.

About the "young country of Russia"

On December 31, 2010, in his capacity as president, Dmitry Medvedev said: “We have a rich and ancient history, and we are justifiably proud of it. At the same time, Russia is a young country. Let me remind you that next year she will be only twenty years old.

As in the case of Medvedev's recent speech in Crimea, the politician meant nothing bad. However, the wording “Russia is a young country, it is only 20 years old” surprised many. It turned out that the Russian Federation does not identify itself not only with the Soviet period, but also moves away from the thousand-year history of Russian statehood as a whole. Meanwhile, Russian Federation, for example, is officially the legal successor of the USSR under international agreements.

Medvedev's words about "a young country that is only 20 years old" were also included in the "golden fund" of his statements.

About the words "cast in granite"

In December 2009, at a meeting of the commission for the modernization of the economy Head of Russian Technologies Sergey Chemezov after the speech of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, he asked for the floor in order to answer, as he put it, the "remark" of the head of state.

Medvedev did not like Chemezov's remark, and he snapped: “My retort is not mine, but a verdict. You have replies. And what I say is cast in granite.

According to reference books, granite is an acidic igneous intrusive rock composed of quartz, plagioclase, potassium feldspar and micas - biotite and/or muscovite. Granites are the most important rocks in the earth's crust. They are widespread and form the basis of most of all continents.

Granite is used as a facing stone, as the main material for the manufacture of monuments, but the casting of anything from it is rather problematic.

Of course, once again we are talking about an inaccurate wording.

About "big and fat cats" in sports

In 2010, after the unsuccessful 2010 Olympics in Vancouver for Russia, Dmitry Medvedev said words that are extremely relevant given the current situation in Russian sports.

At a meeting with the leadership of United Russia, Medvedev said: “The figure of the athlete himself should be put at the forefront - not the federations, which we sometimes have big and fat like cats, let alone the leaders of the federations and not even coaches, with all the colossal respect: athletes achieve success - they should be the epicenter of attention.

Unfortunately, these words were not heard and understood. "Big and fat cats" from sports officials have put Russia on the brink of removal from the 2016 Olympics. It is possible that at least now the "fat cats" will be thoroughly shaken - albeit with an obvious delay.

The premier's speech at the Territory of Meanings educational forum became the reason for the people's anger. Answering the question of a teacher from Dagestan why teachers have a small salary, and the police have a large salary, Medvedev replied that a teacher is a vocation, and whoever wants to earn money will find an opportunity "somehow, so to speak, to earn something else."

The Russians, who still remember Medvedev's call “there is no money, but you hold on,” reacted with indignation to another verbal affront of the prime minister. As a result, a petition soon appeared on Change.org demanding that he be fired. “The Cabinet of Ministers should be headed by a competent, educated person who cares for the country,” the document says. In a short time, the petition gained over 150,000 signatures.

However, this conflict is more curious for its background. Indeed, recently Dmitry Medvedev has more than once made obvious blunders in his speeches, although, it must be said, he did not shine with eloquence before either. Now, however, his misses are receiving increased attention. What is it - the people are tired of the mistakes of the authorities, or is pedaling the mistakes of the prime minister is artificial? It is possible that this is so. After all, Medvedev is convenient for the Kremlin as a lightning rod through which people's discontent can be lowered into the ground. After all, one should hardly expect that Vladimir Putin will dismiss the prime minister. As you know, Medvedev is the leader of United Russia, and his dismissal would visibly hit the party's rating on the eve of the elections. However, there is also an opinion that Dmitry Anatolyevich himself is the main beneficiary of this story. As you know, the president does not like it if someone tries to force him to make decisions, so the petition will most likely go unanswered, while Medvedev, on the contrary, will retain his post.

Vitaly ARKOV, political scientist:

- It is beneficial for someone to remove the prime minister from office, depicting the appearance of discontent. In Russia, there is a special portal where any citizen can make a petition and, if it is popular, implement a public initiative. What is done on other sites, especially foreign ones, for Russian authorities is not of decisive importance.

Nikolay MIRONOV, head of the Center for Economic and Political Reforms:

- They are working against Medvedev both along the lines of Alexei Kudrin and along the lines of the pre-election opposition. Any unsuccessful word or photo is immediately promoted in media publications and social networks. Another thing is that there is discontent in the country, so everything falls on fertile ground.

Alexey MUKHIN, CEO of the Center for Political Information:

- According to my information and according to indirect data, Medvedev will retain the post of prime minister after the September elections. That is, no one will replace him in the foreseeable future. At a certain point, it looked like Medvedev might soon be "left." But now I would venture to suggest that he will retain the post of prime minister after September 18 - and until December 2017.


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