Tetyana says that her family did not even think about their child attending school under Russian occupation. As she puts it, \u201cschools under Russian occupation do not give knowledge and know-how; they teach only how to love Russian motherland\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Propaganda schools\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n In July, Russian occupants significantly speeded up the transformation of education in line with \u201cRussian standards\u201d on occupied territories. Russian school manuals are brought in; teachers are sent for \u201cre-training courses\u201d; the curriculum is reorganized in accordance with Russian programs. There are threats to terminate parental rights of those parents who do not want to send their children to school under Russian occupation and plan that their children will be taught online in accordance with Ukrainian programs.<\/span><\/p>\n The rush is obviously explained by approaching start of the school year. On the other hand, collaborators would like to demonstrate their ability to launch \u201cpeaceful life\u201d to their \u201cRussian masters\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Then, the opening of schools will play an important role for organizing and conducting so-called \u201creferendum\u201d. As a rule, polling stations are set up on the basis of schools in Ukraine whereas teachers are usual members of local election committees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Russian occupants can also use children to pressure their parents. Today threats and intimidation are main instruments occupants and collaborators use to force local people as they know that majority of people do not support the Russian occupation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>Last school bells<\/span><\/a>\u201d in schools whose directors cooperated with occupants became clear indicator of people\u2019s attitude towards occupation. A few school kids attended these events in Melitopol schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Anzor Muzaev, the Head of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, informed at the end of June that 20 thousand Russian forms of school certificates were brought to Melitopol. An equipment to print certificates was also supplied from Russia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Anzor Muzaev, the Head of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/div>\n Despite increasing pressure on school directors and teachers, only 12 out of 20 Melitopol schools are planned to be opened by the Russian occupation administration by the 1<\/span>st<\/span> of September 2022. Many residents left the city or evacuated their children, including future school graduates. Some of those who stay in Melitopol do not want to send their children to schools with a handful of teachers working only in accordance with \u201cstandards of the Russian world\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Occupants are not going to re-open schools located in places not favored by occupants. For example, school # 25 is situated very close to Russian \u201cpeople\u2019s militia\u201d. It is unlikely they will open school # 8 as Russian occupants plan to open \u201chostel\u201d for their troops in its building. Occupants\u2019 \u201cadministration\u201d was launched on the basis of gymnasium # 5\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Sergei Kravtsov, the Russian Minister of Education, is called upon to propagate \u201cRussian educational standards\u201d on occupied territories. He visited Kherson and Melitopol several times. But collaborators failed to organize any single crowded meeting with his participation. He distributed certificates of Russian accreditation to local schools, high school certificates to graduates as well as Russian textbooks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sergei Kravtsov, the Russian Minister of Education, and local collaborator Olena Shapurova\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n Kravtsov formulated clearly the key obligation of local teachers: they must persuade children that Russian occupants are not enemies, they are best friends.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe key issue is to tell school kids true story about our brotherly peoples, our common victories and achievements. It is the most important. We will easily solve any problems with textbooks or infrastructure\u201d, Kravtsov declared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For occupants, the key qualification criterion for Melitopol teachers is their readiness to impose pro-Russian ideological schemes on children and to \u201cintegrate Melitopol into Russian system of education\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n However, as of today, occupants failed to bring sufficient quantity of Russian textbooks even for those children who plan to attend \u201cRussian school\u201d. There was news only about the first dispatch brought and distributed by Minister Kravtsov among teachers for \u201ctheir information\u201d. A few dozen teachers were taken to \u201cre-training courses\u201d in Crimea and Russia. Overall, Russian occupants plan to \u201cre-train\u201d 20 thousand teachers on occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Crimean experience\u201d is used by occupants as the sample to change the sphere of education on newly occupied territories. Erasing Ukrainian identity, shaping the loyalty towards occupants and militarization of education were main features of this \u201cexperience\u201d after illegal annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mixing everything<\/b><\/p>\n Higher education and technical and vocational education are also transformed by Russian occupants. \u201cMelitopol State University named after Makarenko\u201d was set up on the basis of higher education institutions of the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia oblast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Occupants combined Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Tavriisky State Agrotechnological University, Classic Private University and Berdyansk State Pedagogical University into one higher education institution. It clearly follows the \u201cCrimean approach\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As the CJI <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a>, \u201cMelitopol State University\u201d of non-existing state was created in the building confiscated from Ukrainian higher education institutions. They were evacuated and re-registered on the territory controlled by Ukraine. \u2018<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMelitopol University\u201d is headed by <\/span>Andrei Chuikov<\/b>, the former employee of the Kharkiv National Law University. It was reported that he openly supported \u201cAnti-Maidan\u201d and refused from his certificate of the Ukrainian policeman during \u201cRussian Spring\u201d in 2014 in Kharkiv.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Free tuition and stipends in rubles are presented by occupants as main advantages of the fake \u201cuniversity\u201d. But there is no boom of applications. \u201cDiplomas\u201d of this \u201cuniversity\u201d will not be recognized anywhere in the world. By the way, \u201cdiplomas\u201d of Crimean and Sevastopol higher education institutions are also not recognized after 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, managers of this fake \u201cuniversity\u201d seized not only the property of Ukrainian state agrarian and pedagogical universities but also documents of their students and personnel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe decided to take away originals of documents we submitted to the Ukrainian Agrotechnological University as our child does not plan to continue tuition in Ukraine. We visited newly created \u201cuniversity\u201d three times. First, we were told to come later. Then, we were asked to submit application to the rector of university. He would consider it and decide after personal meeting whether to return documents. Other parents were told that the return of documents would be paid service and that parents should submit their personal data. So, finally, we decided to restore the certificate on the territory controlled by Ukraine\u201d, Yulia said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Occupants advertise institutions of technical and vocational education they seized in June. They will accept students without exams. These institutions were evacuated and re-registered on non-occupied territory of Ukraine. Students will continue their study online along Ukrainian programs. They will receive Ukrainian diplomas and they will not have to submit any additional applications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Diplomas of Russian fake \u201cuniversities\u201d and technical and vocational institutions will be recognized only on occupied territories and, perhaps, in the Russian Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n Who manages \u201ceducation\u201d in Melitopol?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Some school graduates received Russian school certificates in Melitopol. Only nine graduates with the best results received \u201cgolden medals\u201d during the celebration of the \u201clast school bell\u201d. In July, certificates were given to graduates of school # 15, the only school accredited by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. According to the data of occupation administration, 4\u00a0400 Russian school certificates about completion of 9<\/span>th<\/span> and 11<\/span>th<\/span> grades were delivered to Melitopol, including 400 certificates with distinction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Russian school certificates in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n The \u201coblast government\u201d is now being staffed on the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia oblast. A number of Russian public officials landed in Melitopol. Anton Koltsov, the Deputy Governor of Russian Vologda oblast, was appointed the \u201chead of Zaporizhzhia government\u201d. Sevastopol inhabitant Anton Titsky, advisor to the Head of the Russian Federal Agency on Youth Affairs, became the \u201cminister of the youth policy\u201d. As of now, it is not known who will \u201cmanage\u201d the education in oblast government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Olena Shapurova, collaborator. Photo: 1news.zp.ua<\/i><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n Currently, the education sphere is managed by <\/span>Olena Shapurova<\/b> with scandalous reputation. Before the Russian invasion, she was the director of Melitopol industrial and economic college. Upon complaints of college personnel, the National Police of Ukraine initiated criminal investigation into her activity. The space of college was leased without registration of leasing agreements; students were forced to do repair works whereas the money for these works were transferred to dubious companies etc. The investigation was completed and submitted to the court consideration one year ago. However, the court consideration was delayed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There is an interesting coincidence: the \u201cdepartment of education\u201d in the occupation administration of Kherson oblast is also headed by a person with criminal background. It is <\/span>Tetyana Kuzmich<\/span><\/a>. She was accused of the state treason. The court consideration was also delayed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tetyana Kuzmich, collaborator. Photo: favoritekherson.co<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/div>\n Olena Shapurova was among the first people to start collaboration with the enemy in the city. Her husband, subordinates and friends received managerial positions in educational institutions whose directors refused cooperating with occupants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Roman Dzuba<\/b>, the former power lifting trainer and Shapurova\u2019s husband, became the director of school # 15. There is no surprise this school was the first to receive Russian accreditation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Roman Dzuba, collaborator<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/div>\n Olena Kosh<\/b>el, teacher of informatics in the college once headed by Shapurova, became the top manager of technical and vocational college created by collaborators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Andrii Leonov<\/b>, another Shapurova\u2019s colleague, heads schools #4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There is an acute shortage of pedagogical personnel for collaborators. That is why they hire pensioners and people without pedagogical training and experience. The problem with pedagogical personnel is the most urgent in secondary schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There were cases when armed people visited teachers who quitted their schools and required them to come back or leave the city.<\/span><\/p>\n The situation in rural communities is critical.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some rural schools have to find all teachers. Job advertisements are regularly posted by local Russian propaganda accounts in social networks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For example, Rozivka secondary school is desperately looking for all teachers \u2013 from a mathematician to a trainer. The same situation is observed in other large settlements: Voznesenka (Melitopol suburb), Yakymivka, Pryazovske (former centers of rural raions).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There is also an acute shortage of kids for schools. Occupants threaten parents to terminate parental rights if their children will not attend the school in Yakymivka.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To sum up, parents and their children face real danger caused by occupants\u2019 and collaborators\u2019 plans to demonstrate \u201csuccessful peaceful life\u201d on occupied territories.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot_28-1.png\")
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