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Cheburashka on the selector

Characters: head of the city methodological center (RGMTs), head of the education department (RDO), school principal (DSh)

RSMC: Dear colleagues, this is an absolutely wonderful assignment - to bring the product "Cheburashka". And either the whole family made this product "Cheburashka" at home, or the whole family was looking for this "Cheburashka". And every child knows that Cheburashka lives in a box of oranges. So I think there is some problem. If this product is made at school, then why do we wear it back and forth? RDO: Alexander Yakovlevich! LH: Yes, Isaac Iosifovich! RDO: What is your attitude to such homework? LH: Isaak Iosifovich, well, after March 10, we prepared an order after such ... when some teachers appear in electronic journals to bring something. And every teacher was familiarized. And we generally have a ban on bringing something into homework. But at some point, of course, this is not egregious, but ... we are not allowed, in general. Control over monitoring, over journals by the administration was weakened. And, in general, they will receive punishment there, of course, but we, of course, are against it. In general, against bringing them at all. The school itself must provide all the connecting materials ... RDO: But I wonder how many days an unfortunate family is given to complete such a task? Or was it written in the evening, and in the morning ... RSMC: It happens that they wrote in the evening, and tomorrow morning you have to bring it ... Maximum two or three days. RDO: Alexander Yakovlevich, do you have a lot of Cheburashkas at home? Personally? LH: No one. RDO: No one! And you say it's not a flagrant violation! LH: Egregious violation. RDO: BUT! Blatant! LH: Yes. RDO: Well, you said you have a ban. Your worker violated your prohibition. Your decision? LH: Well, this means the head teacher, he was reprimanded. The employee was also reprimanded, the teacher. Well, in the end, there will be another ... pedagogical council, and this will be announced. Well, in general, we will reach every teacher that this is a very serious violation. RDO (sighs heavily): Alexander Yakovlevich, if the ban can be violated virtually with impunity, then who will consider it a ban? So I understand it is written on the box: “Don't get in! Kill!”, and the skull with bones is drawn. Everyone understands that this is a ban, that it is impossible to touch electrical wires. Because it will kill. Here is the ban. And it’s like this with you ... They tried it, violated it, nothing happened - that’s it, the ban has been lifted. You can cancel, Alexander Yakovlevich. LH: (nodding head down). RDO: If the ban can be violated with impunity, then the ban must be urgently canceled. And write: “I was wrong. Everyone is allowed to wear Cheburashkas, crocodiles ... ”It’s good that they didn’t write:“ Bring a crocodile ”, and even without quotes. Is this the North East? Is the inspector here? So, tell the curator that I'm waiting for decisions on the director. Petr Sarukhanov / "New"

Teachers are discussing a video about Cheburashka all day long. And even, scary to say, they are discussing whether to write an open letter to the Great and Terrible Head of the Department of Education in Moscow, Mr. Kalina, that it is impossible to behave like this with people.

Indeed: anyone who has ever watched the broadcast of meetings in the Department of Education, the style of communication of Isaac Iosifovich Kalina with his subordinates is painfully familiar. It is reminiscent of Stalin's manner of communicating with people's commissars. The boss asks questions to which only he himself knows the answers, the subordinate stutters, blushes, mumbles, those present try to blend in with the environment.

The Moscow education system — and not only Moscow — is built on a vertical of fear. Everyone is afraid of everyone. Everything that you do at school, you do before the first parent who decides to complain about you: whether he doesn’t like the amount of homework or the wording of the topic of the essay.

Parents of students are not easy. When at eleven o'clock in the morning your child suddenly remembers that tomorrow you need to bring to school a diary of observations of nature for a month, a presentation on the topic "Inhabitants of the forest-steppes" or a soft toy "fox cub", parents go berserk. They go berserk even if the child is asked to choose which poem about nature he himself would like to learn by heart, and if he needs to bring a compass to school tomorrow. They are tired of teaching for their children. Buy crafts for them (didn't you know? There is a whole black market for crafts made from natural materials for the beginning!). Draw contour maps for them, sculpt presentations (after all, no one in their right mind thinks that a child at 8 years old is capable of making a presentation in Power Point, right?).

All year long, my parents were moaning: what the hell are acorns and chestnuts when it has been snowing for three weeks? Are we going to give birth to them? Why does the teacher put a deuce for the lack of a protractor? Is it really impossible to give everyone a protractor in the lesson?

These cries reached the right ears. Retribution came to the guilty. Now teachers in many schools in Moscow are strictly forbidden to write the word “bring” in the “homework” column, even if they need to bring a compass to a math class. Just "don't forget the compass."

The guilty are publicly flogged so that the rest would be discouraged. Has the triumph of justice arrived? You do not say.

A familiar teacher writes: “I have no right to take fifteen-year-old students to the park without a second escort and without written permission from their parents. I don’t have the right to show them a movie of my choice in class, because one of the parents will probably not like my choice, and they will complain.”

The parents were so tired of being afraid of the school that they rebelled, and now the school is afraid of them.

And for the school to be afraid is a habitual course of action.

In my childhood, school was ruled by fear. A summons to the director, a summons to the teachers' council, a review of a personal file at a Komsomol meeting - they were afraid of all this. At one time it seemed that it was not worth keeping the population in constant fear, that one could try to remove the fear. But if you remove the fear, then you have to reckon with people, talk, and this is difficult, because they are unreasonable and make noise in different voices.

Everyone who was at the parent meeting must have at least once experienced the temptation to shoot a blank into the air as a warning, when Petya's mother once again asks if it is possible to wear not a white, but a light gray T-shirt for physical education. And it seems then that the most effective way to manage this confusion is to scare everyone to such an extent that they stand on the line against the wall and are afraid to cough.

The bullshit is that when you stand on the line against the wall and are afraid to cough, it is impossible to learn. And teaching is also impossible. At least according to the Federal State Educational Standards, at least in the old fashioned way. Cognitive activity is a capricious thing: it wakes up only when a person does not experience anxiety, when he trusts the one who leads him through the new world further into the unknown.

And how to teach without fear and manage without fear - the current school does not know. She has no such means. And they are not in the state; before they had time to work it out, they again decided to take it for fear. And what to do when they try to control you with the help of fear, the teachers don't know either.

... No one at the meeting in the department stood up and said, like Alice in court: “Yes, you are just cards.”

Nobody even tried. Scary.

In fact, we are very brave, honestly. But I will also bravely sign this text with a pseudonym. Not because I'm afraid of Isaac Iosifovich and the entire Department of Education, taken together. Although I really do not like it when they shout at me, and I can even cry.

It's simple: I didn't build this school. I don't lead it. I'll take my ten hours a week and leave. I will finish this year and I can quit, a new teacher will be found in my place, and the school will remain. And what can be done with the school - we all saw in the process of reorganizing schools into large complexes.

Isaac Kalina. Photo: RIA Novosti

We know that a school can be beheaded because of Cheburashka. This is within the law. The school can be completely destroyed, and we have also seen this.

And my individual courage, which costs me nothing, in general, because I do not risk anything, except for one of the few jobs, will turn into the destruction of someone's life's work.

It's hard for a teacher to be brave - he always has hostages. And it is difficult for him to teach him to be brave: well, he will leave the school from the power of the tyrant director, as in the Dead Poets Society, but the children will remain. Is it the teacher's responsibility or irresponsibility?

No matter how they try to convince us that our work is pure technology, it still rests on ethics. And no technology works without ethics. And no car drives for a long time on pure fear. And if it goes, then it falls apart. Saltykov-Shchedrin has it all written down.

Anna Gamalova,
for "New"

Teachers are vigorously discussing a video from a meeting chaired by the head of the Moscow Department of Education, Isaac Kalina, at which he scolds the director of Lyceum No. 1537, Alexander Viktorov.

What is your attitude to such homework? - in a tone that does not bode well, the official asks.
- We had weakened control over the monitoring of magazines, - Alexander Viktorov is trying to justify himself. -

Of course, they will receive punishment ... But the case is not egregious ...

And how many Cheburashkas do you personally have at home? - Isaac Kalina continues the interrogation.

None, said the director.

After which, apparently, realizing the gravity of the misconduct, he said that he considered the case egregious. But it was too late. The official demanded to "make a decision" on the director.

Apparently, the decision has already been made. On the website of Lyceum No. 1537, another person is listed as the director. The school declined to comment on the situation. The department was unable to comment promptly.

In a discussion on the Pedsovet website, ordinary teachers take the side of the dismissed director, call the situation absurd and claim that teachers are constantly humiliated, “banged up” with strange orders such as a ban on hugging children or writing the word “bring” in diaries.

If you punish a student, ask him to stand on the sidelines, then you won’t get any trouble later, ”the physical education teacher tells Metro on condition of anonymity. - If the mother of the child writes to the department, then you will be punished immediately, without trial, - the parent is always right.

We were indeed forbidden to write the word “bring,” a primary school teacher also shares anonymously. - And how should I buy materials for crafts? For the 100 rubles that they give me a month for literature? There are 27 people in the class ... I don’t write anything in an electronic diary, but in a paper one - without the word “bring”, just: “fabric, needles, threads”.

Cheburashka on the selector

Characters: head of the city methodological center (RGMTs), head of the education department (RDO), school principal (DSh)

The guilty are publicly flogged so that the rest would be discouraged. Has the triumph of justice arrived? You do not say.

The parents were so tired of being afraid of the school that they rebelled, and now the school is afraid of them.

And for the school to be afraid is a habitual course of action.

... No one at the meeting in the department stood up and said, like Alice in court: “Yes, you are just cards.”

Nobody even tried. Scary.

Isaac Kalina. Photo: RIA Novosti

We know that a school can be beheaded because of Cheburashka. This is within the law. The school can be completely destroyed, and we have also seen this.

And my individual courage, which costs me nothing, in general, because I do not risk anything, except for one of the few jobs, will turn into the destruction of someone's life's work.

Anna Gamalova,
for "New"

How did I see the first visual image of Cheburashka? It was a hot July 1964. The niece of my friend, the writer Felix Kamov, was bought a fur coat with a big collar. The girl was four years old, and the fur coat was bought for growth. Girl...

Here Cheburashka fell again!

I asked:

What is this word?

He explained to me that this is a rare word. That "cheburahnut" means to fall. And this “cheburahavshiesya” creature I remember for a long time.

The second impetus for the emergence of Cheburashka was a small chameleon with huge eyes, which I saw on bunches of bananas when I was writing the narration for a film about the Odessa port.

From these two moments, Cheburashka grew up.

First came my book about Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka. And then a few years later, in the screenplay of the film “Crocodile Gena”, which we wrote with director Roman Kachanov, we explained that Cheburashka is a nocturnal animal like a lemur, but not a lemur.

And when people who want to appropriate the right to Cheburashka say that I wrote in the preface to the book that the animal is almost a mixture of an eagle owl and a kangaroo, they twitch. In the preface to the book, I described my favorite toy of my childhood, and not Cheburashka.

The first puppet image of Cheburashka appeared in 1968 at the Leningrad Puppet Theater. At that time, by order of Evgenia Ilyina, the head of the puppet theater, I wrote the play “Gena the Crocodile”.

At the same time, director Roman Kachanov was directing the film Crocodile Gena. We decided to write a play together. We arrived in Leningrad, where we received a good stick from the zavlit for a misunderstanding of dramaturgy. We got acquainted with the leading actors - Faina Kostina and Nikita Okhochinsky. And with the doll artist Skripova-Yasinskaya.

We told her our vision of the hero, and she created the first doll - Cheburashka with big round ears and big eyes.

The next, already drawn, image of Cheburashka was created by the artist Boris Stepantsev at the Filmstrip Studio for the filmstrip “Crocodile Gena”. He has the same outline as the Leningrad Cheburashka.

And, finally, the third Cheburashka was created - for the cartoon. It was drawn by Roman Kachanov. His son, also Roman and also a director, has his father's sketches.

The artist Shvartsman, who claims to be the author of Cheburashka, claims that he is the author of this image. But so far there is no document that unconditionally confirms this fact. There is no drawing accepted and approved by the artistic council or the directorate of the studio.

But there is a doll made by a puppet master - artist Oleg Masainov. So why isn't he the author of the animated Cheburashka?

But there is one more circumstance in the conflict around Cheburashka. The fact is that when I transferred the right to use my character to Japan, I indicated in the contract that the entire territory of the former USSR remains with me. While the image of the cartoon Cheburashka, which is claimed by L.A. Shvartsman, was sold to the whole world, and therefore to Russia too. And now this drawing cannot be used within Russia.

Thank God that Cheburashka can be drawn in different ways. I have thousands of Cheburashkas of different artists at home. And it saves me. Only the lawyers of L. Shvartsman immediately demand a tribute, a tax, from any Cheburashka in the country, despite the fact that the worldwide rights to the image have been sold overseas.

When I sign contracts with firms for the production of goods, I conclude contracts for my character. Then I say: now go to the artists. You can choose any Cheburashka - Cheburashka Alfeevsky, Stepantsev, Chizhikov, Kalinovsky, Solin, Shvartsman and any others. But with Cheburashka, whom Shvartsman considers his own, you have to be more careful, he is sold.

And the lawyers who conclude contracts in Russia on his behalf put Leonid Aronovich in a dangerous position.

Part of the transcript of a conference call where high-ranking officials of the education system discussed the topic related to Cheburashka and Gena the crocodile.

"Characters: Head of the City Methodological Center (RGMTs), Head of the Department of Education (RDO), Principal of the School (DSh)

RSMC: Dear colleagues, this is an absolutely wonderful assignment - to bring the "Cheburashka" item. And either the whole family made this product "Cheburashka" at home, or the whole family was looking for this "Cheburashka". And every child knows that Cheburashka lives in a box of oranges. So I think there is some problem. If this product is made at school, then why do we wear it back and forth?

RDO: Alexander Yakovlevich!

DS: Yes, Isaak Iosifovich!

RDO: What is your attitude to such homework?

DS: Isaac Iosifovich, well, after March 10, we prepared an order after such ... when they appear in electronic journals from some teachers to bring something. And every teacher was familiarized. And we generally have a ban on bringing something into homework. But at some point, of course, it's not egregious, but ... we are not allowed, in general. Control over monitoring, over journals by the administration was weakened. And, in general, they will receive punishment there, of course, but we, of course, are against it. In general, against bringing them at all. The school itself must provide all the connecting materials ...

RDO: But I wonder how many days an unfortunate family is given to complete such a task? Or was it written in the evening, and in the morning ...

RGMC: It happens that in the evening they wrote, and tomorrow morning they have to bring it ... Maximum two or three days.

RDO: Alexander Yakovlevich, do you have a lot of Cheburashkas at home? Personally?

DS: None.

RDO: None! And you say it's not a flagrant violation!

DS: Egregious violation.

RDO: Ah! Blatant!

RDO: Well, you said you have a ban. Your worker violated your prohibition. Your decision?

DS: Well, that means the head teacher, he was reprimanded. The employee was also reprimanded, the teacher. Well, in the end, there will be another ... pedagogical council, and this will be announced. Well, in general, we will reach every teacher that this is a very serious violation.

RDO (sighs heavily): Alexander Yakovlevich, if the ban can be violated virtually with impunity, then who will consider it a ban? So I understand it says on the box: "Don't get in! It will kill you!", And the skull with bones is drawn. Everyone understands that this is a ban, that it is impossible to touch electrical wires. Because it will kill. Here is the ban. And it’s like this with you ... They tried it, violated it, nothing happened - that’s it, the ban has been lifted. You can cancel, Alexander Yakovlevich.

DS: (nods with lowered head).

RDO: If the ban can be violated with impunity, then the ban needs to be lifted urgently. And write: "I made a mistake. Everyone is allowed to wear Cheburashka, crocodiles ..." It's good that they didn't write: "Bring a crocodile", and even without quotes.

Is this the North East? Is the inspector here? So, tell the curator that I'm waiting for decisions on the director."

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Cheburashka on the selector

Characters: head of the city methodological center (RGMTs), head of the education department (RDO), school principal (DSh)

Cheburashka on the selector

Characters: head of the city methodological center (RGMTs), head of the education department (RDO), school principal (DSh)

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