Dagestani schools are short of textbooks. Parents are buying them out of pocket.
At school No. 26 Makhachkala Fourteen first grade classes, each with 45 students, were enrolled, and in some classes, children were not given a single textbook. Parents will have to buy half of the books at schools No. 4, 51, and 10 in Makhachkala, as well as at the Republican Multidisciplinary Lyceum. Complaints are also coming in from Derbent, Gumbetovsky, Novolaksky и Khasavyurt districts.
Parents Mutsalaulskaya Secondary School No. 2, Khasavyurt District you said their indignation towards the Ministry of Education.It's not enough that our children are studying in a dilapidated school (as Dagestan Education Minister Yahya Buchaev said, "there are worse schools." It's a shame we didn't manage to top this ranking), and now we have to buy textbooks too.“, says the publication “Chernovik”.
Residents of the village of Oktyabrskoye, where are the parents have achieved the closure of the emergency school, they said NotMoscow, that parents are told about the availability of child benefits and are offered to use these funds to buy school textbooks.
Today, not only are our children learning remotely, but they're also missing half their textbooks. I know for a fact about the shortage of books in Russian, English, and Technology. Moreover, schools brazenly tell parents that they receive substantial child benefits, so they should use them to buy textbooks."," said the father of three schoolchildren from Oktyabrsky.
According to the Minister of Education and Science of Dagestan Yahya BuchaevaThe shortage of textbooks in the republic's schools was caused by the "exclusion of many textbooks from the federal list" and a significant increase in the number of students. In the 2022-2023 academic year, there were 469 thousands, while in the current one their number is 480 thousands.
Apparently, the cost of additional textbook supplies for approximately 11 schoolchildren (according to the minister, providing a full supply of textbooks per student costs an average of approximately 10 rubles) has become too much for the republic's budget to bear. Therefore, the burden has been shifted to families, which typically raise three or more children.
It is worth noting that for 2023, the republican treasury has allocated an amount of 1 billion 498 million rublesHowever, according to a source in the publication Chernovik, only 30% of this amount, or approximately 500 million rubles, has been spent.