Is there a list of the most essential needs for schools?

09:00 / 05.04.2024 1.43k

In fact, the OpenBudget process revealed many problems. You see, one school is just collecting votes for an interactive whiteboard or an air conditioner. Another school does not even have a toilet, or the school building is in a state of disrepair.

Now imagine if the school with the worst conditions does not get a vote, but the school that fought for an interactive whiteboard or an air conditioner wins, will the money allocated from the budget be properly spent?

Didn't our leaders in charge of education make a list of the most essential needs for schools? Of course, the school needs an interactive whiteboard, air conditioning, and the most modern equipment. But when there are schools in the republic with very difficult conditions, this issue loses its relevance.

In 2022, a loan was allocated from the bank for the repair of specialized schools belonging to the former Presidential Educational Institutions Agency, but these works were carried out on time. If necessary, we will find such an opportunity.

In fact, it is wrong to classify schools in this way. For example, if you see how the President's School or the newly established specialized schools are being renovated, you will send it as Finland.

We do not want to say that such modern schools are not needed. We just want to remind you that money should be used for the most necessary needs. Nowadays, schools are very different from each other. Unfortunately, we are very divided.

In Finland, in the 1960s, a decision was made to abandon the stratified education system and to develop comprehensive schools, making education in good conditions general and open for every student, not just for disadvantaged students.

In our practice, excellent opportunities and conditions are created for presidential, creative and specialized schools, and general education schools are rarely given such an opportunity. And ordinary schools are doomed to wander by collecting votes in "OpenBudget".