Occupied Luhansk schools to start grading kids on behavior - Soviet-style
Russians are integrating the occupied territories into their own educational space (Photo: Getty Images)
In the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk region, Russians and collaborators plan to revive the Soviet-era practice of grading schoolchildren behavior. These behavior grades will affect the overall level of academic success, states the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Oleksii Kharchenko.
Russians plan to carry out this experiment in educational institutions located in the temporarily occupied cities of Kadiivka, Luhansk, Alchevsk, Dovzhansk, Sorokyne, Starobilsk, and Sievierodonetsk (areas under the control of the pro-Russian terrorist group Luhansk People's Republic).
In this way, the Russian administration aims to exert influence over schoolchildren. Through this behavior grading system, students in the temporarily occupied territories will be pressured to participate in events developed by Russian propagandists.
There’s nothing new in what the Russians and their collaborators are doing: the behavior grading system in schools is a Soviet-era innovation. Even Soviet officials eventually abolished it back in the day.
However, the Russian authorities are now trying to revive this practice. The behavior grading system is being introduced not only in the temporarily occupied territories but also across Russia itself, including in regions like Chechnya and Mordovia.
University admission campaign
Meanwhile, Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied and frontline territories can enroll in Ukrainian universities without taking the NMT (National Multi-Subject Test). This year, even a high school diploma is not required. The government has established a simplified procedure for them.
