The Department of education demands family to use annual attestation for unschooling kids. The mother of girls is protecting her rights for freedom in choosing the form and the way of organising education for her own daughters.
A mother from Tatarstan, Elena, is trying to win the right to educate her daughter at home, without connection with school schedules and attestation.
She wants to be free in her choice but officials try to do all possible to return the family into the system.
Elena took her girls away from school when she saw low level of that education. Moreover girls have to do himework till midnight because they got no information from lessons, they had to study the topic onjce again at home.
And what about free time? Rest? Other activities, for example, sport?
No time for it! And Elena decided to be an unschooling mom.
In Tatarstan the situation with unschooling is one of the worst in the whole Russia. There parents really have the most number of problems. But still they don't give up and fight for their rights. Just like Elena.
The Department of Education wants the kids to pass an annual intermediate assessment at the end of each grade. The prosecutor's office is on the side of the authorities.
Elena insists: the daughter is not attached to the school, which means that the law gives them the right to undergo certification when they want to do it. Without any restrictions because they all destroy the idea of unschooling, and she is 100% right!
But...the family lost the court of first instance.
Elena doesn't give up. The woman assumes that she will succeed only in cassation or in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
In 2023, in Russia, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Education, 16500 children are in family education.
At the same time, according to unofficial information, according to Parliamentary Newspaper, the number of such students in the country can reach up to 90,000. The development of family education was especially affected by covid and the transfer of children to distance learning.
It should be noted that such a form of education as family education is enshrined in the Federal Law “On Education”, it has been legalized in Russia since 1992 and, along with school education, has the right to exist for 30 years. If officials do not accept it, trying to belittle children who are in family education, it really needs to be proven through the courts.
