"Here you have vitamins, and it was just fun to take care of the plants": the head of Karelia proposed bringing back greenhouses to schools
Karelia's head, Artur Parfenchikov, proposed reviving greenhouse farms in schools. The idea came to him after the State Duma passed a law mandating schoolchildren's participation in labor.
"Remember how we grew vegetables in the school greenhouses? And then ate them until New Year's? It gave you vitamins, and it was just fun to take care of the plants," wrote Parfenchikov on his VKontakte social network account.
His followers generally supported the idea, but also questioned the legitimacy of such an initiative, so that children wouldn't be forced to work in greenhouses:
"It's a very difficult question. What if the child isn't interested? We could create a fund to support school agriculture. This has to be legitimate."
"We think too much about legitimacy and rights these days, forgetting about simple work. A generation of children has grown up ignorant of the most basic things in life. It's time to spend time in real life instead of online."
"They didn't ask us questions at school or at university. At school, we weeded the collective farm fields, then picked and sorted after the tractors. At university, it was beautiful: we lived in barracks, harvested the crops, students who were always hungry. You'd pick a tomato, and eat it with black bread, but it was such fun."
"First, they should solve the staffing problem! There's a teacher shortage in the villages. It's all one thing to assign work, but who's going to do it?"
Let's remember that the law on involving schoolchildren in community service stipulated that children would be required to clean classrooms, plant trees near the school, and help out in the library. "NeMoskva" also askedWhat do passersby think about the new law?
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