The authorities are afraid that the enemy might find out about the shortage of textbooks and the children's academic performance, and we will be disgraced.
Recently, authorities in two more regions - Dagestan и North Ossetia Recommended that teachers abandon WhatsApp in favor of a domestic equivalent. Communication between teachers, students, and their parents should take place on the platform. Spherum.
"A very strict ban on all foreign messengers is being introduced." — this is the message the teaching staff of one of the republic's schools received on September 20th. Moreover, as a teacher at the educational institution reported NotMoscow, everyone continues to work "the old way" and is not "eager to burden themselves with extra work"
A source in the republican Ministry of Education reported NotMoscowThe minister signed the order banning the use of foreign messengers at the beginning of the school year. "This information has not yet been communicated to all educational institutions, but this will be done gradually."
A teacher at one of the schools Makhachkala, Patimat, said Olga, NotMoscow, that this year teachers started registering parents and students on Sferum, but they don't log in.
"Parents and senior teachers find it more convenient to work via WhatsApp. But apparently the authorities are afraid that by using foreign messaging apps, the enemy might learn about textbook shortages and children's academic performance, and we'll be embarrassed." — jokes Patimat.
NotMoscow I spoke with teachers in other regions.
"You're mastering one platform, the kids are doing well, everyone's happy, but then someone upstairs comes up with something else, and we have to switch to a new development all at once. Okay, so now we (me, the kids, and the parents) can all sign up for Sferum and get things up and running, but where's the guarantee that in a year they won't tell us Sferum is no good again?" — says a primary school teacher from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra SvetlanaThey were required to switch to the new platform starting in mid-September.
The teacher notes that during the pandemic, they worked on Viber and VKontakte, which was very convenient for everyone. Last year, these messaging apps were banned and communication was transferred to Zoom.
"But as soon as we got things up and running there, they told us Zoom is no good, everyone should move to Sferum. Why are they forcing us to go there?" — the interlocutor is indignant NotMoscow.