A. Lukashenko: The Belarusian pedagogical community needs a shake-up

August 29, Minsk / Tatyana Polezhay - BELTA/. The pedagogical community of Belarus needs a shake-up. This was stated today at a meeting of the pedagogical asset by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, BelTA correspondent reports.

"It is intolerable how our school as a whole is developing. We are already seeing not isolated, but in many cases mass violations of elementary order, lack of control, and visible prospects," said the head of state. According to him, a recently conducted monitoring of the activities of educational institutions showed that "a teacher comes to school like to a factory: worked their hours and went home." "The school cannot develop like this. This is not the direction of school development," the President emphasized.

According to the head of state, most of the problems have been accumulating for years due to the passivity and indifference of individual managers and teachers. Alexander Lukashenko stressed that this cannot continue. "In our circle, frankly speaking, the need to shake up the entire pedagogical community of the country has ripened," he said.

The President called on teachers for an open conversation. "Let's frankly answer all the questions, determine why this is happening, and immediately rectify the situation, preserve the high level and authority of our education, which has developed today and which is recognized worldwide," said the head of state.

At the same time, Alexander Lukashenko believes that teachers form the basis of public life. "Without our teachers, there would be no normal policy in our state. You are truly the basis of our state's policy. All political campaigns, all activities in the country, one way or another, rely on you. As you were in Soviet times, so you remain the main conductors of the ideas of normal development of our state and the basis, if you will, of stability," said Alexander Lukashenko.-0-