Parents of schoolchildren have come to the defense of a Kamchatka teacher accused of discrediting the army.
Russian language teacher Vasil Vershinin She returned to her position as a class teacher, which she left at the end of September after her arrest and the harassment that began.
"I came back because the students' parents stood up for me. They called the principal and asked him not to fire me." — the teacher told NeMoskva.
She doesn’t know how many such calls there were.
Vershinina previously reported that employees of the "E" center detained She was arrested right during class, accused of discrediting the Armed Forces and resisting. The teacher spent two days in police custody.
During this time, the local state television channel produced a story in which the mother of one of the students complained about the teaching methods of the detainee and asked that her children be protected from her. After this, some students refused attend Vershinina's classes, which led her to withdraw from two classes, including the one where she was the homeroom teacher.
— Yesterday [October 2] I returned to the class management, — the teacher said. — I am teaching Russian in this same class again.
On the same day, police officers drew up a report against Vershinina for discrediting the army. impute the phrase "Our country will be declared a criminal," which she posted on her social media.
The analyzed text contains linguistic means used for the purpose of discrediting the Armed Forces, - the teacher quoted a fragment of the protocol.
Today, October 3rd, he is scheduled to appear in court. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, where the date of the hearing will be decided.
At the same time, the school will hold a meeting with the boy's mother, who voiced her concerns about Vershinina to a local television station.
Her son is doing poorly academically, so the question of keeping him back a year will be decided, — said the teacher. — I think the conflict will be obvious, and some parents have simply adopted a wait-and-see attitude: they are waiting to see how the public will react and whether anyone will stand up for me.
Photo by Irina Kanashina
