Where to send your child for the summer: 8 thematic camps in the Moscow region

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Last week, Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov, at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, announced that 36,485 educational organizations were fully prepared for the school year. According to Rosstat, as of 2020, there are about 41 thousand schools in Russia. The Ministry of Education, in response to a request from Izvestia about the situation with the acceptance of schools, explained that complete information on this issue will appear only after August 20 - by this day the school education system must be fully ready to welcome students.

Even before the announcement of the all-Russian inspection, the prosecutor's office of the Altai Territory became interested in media information about the poor condition of the school in the Pankrushikhinsky district of the Altai Territory. We are talking about the Berezovsky branch of the Pankrushikha school, which, according to the department, was accepted by the commission for the new academic year. Now prosecutors will check whether safe conditions have been created for children to learn, and whether the commission conducted the inspection properly.

The reason for the inspection was an appeal from members of the parent committee of the Berezovskaya secondary school to deputies of the Altai Legislative Assembly Sergei Serov and Evgenia Borovikova. Parents asked to help them organize major repairs of a dilapidated building. They reported that in almost all the offices the roof was leaking, there were cracks in the walls, and the wiring was constantly shorted out due to ceiling leaks. However, this does not prevent the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science from annually accepting the school for the new academic year. This year, the commission visited the school on August 14, made comments about fire safety that needed to be corrected by August 17, and that was it.

Borovikova, in an interview with Izvestia, said that she herself studied at this school. Then it was an independent secondary school, now it is a branch, in which 59 children study up to the 9th grade.

— Since then, no major renovations have been done at all. There was even a roof collapse in 1999,” she says. — It's cold at school. The central heating system is rotten, and in winter steam comes out of your mouth. The toilets inside the building, intended for lower grades, do not work - they are always closed. Children have to go outside, but the toilets there also leave much to be desired. Everything flows - especially in spring and autumn during the rains. Basins and buckets are placed in five classrooms. There are large cracks in the walls and rotten windows. They are not going to do the wiring, because first you need to cover the roof, otherwise everything will continue to be flooded with water.

Enjoy your summer holidays. Where to place the child?

Summer is not only a time for relaxation, but also a great time to catch up on material missed at school, improve your knowledge and be well prepared for moving on to the next grade. What should you do: send your child to summer camp or to grandma’s, leave him at home, or go to the seaside with him? What about preparing for school?

It is obvious that the concept of "summer vacation"

children interpret things somewhat differently than their parents and teachers. For them, summer is a time of relaxation and fun, and therefore any tasks are viewed with hostility, and their completion is postponed in every possible way until the last days. Even a must-read list usually gathers dust in a desk drawer until August arrives. Coming to school on the first of September, our children are faced with the problem of a sharp decline in academic performance, and the desire to study after a long summer holiday also leaves much to be desired.

As a result, the first quarter of the school year becomes one of the most disastrous. That's what the teachers say, that's what the statistics show. It will take a long time until the child enters the usual study mode. What to do, because it is almost impossible to force a child to study independently in the summer and control his activities, as teachers do every day at school. In the summer, the child is more left to his own devices, and parents, although they understand that they cannot neglect their studies, often turn a blind eye, feeling sorry for their children who are already tired during the school year.

Plan your summer vacation schedule

- not an easy task. After all, in three months you need time to relax, improve your health and, of course, spend time usefully. It is precisely the last point that causes the greatest difficulties for parents. The holidays fly by quickly, and if you don’t settle your child in time and keep him busy with useful activities, the summer will be pleasant, but completely useless.

An action plan, which is a time breakdown of visiting grandma, going to summer camp, relaxing at sea and sitting at home at the computer, as a rule, does not include one important point - time strictly allocated for preparing for school

, in other words, completing homework for the summer. So it turns out that with the arrival of August, parents, and along with them their children, clutch their heads and, shouting “guard,” try to catch up with the departing train.

It should be noted that the readiness for the school year of children who regularly study 1-2 hours a week throughout the summer is significantly different from those who grab textbooks at the last moment. As a rule, this short period of time is enough to ensure that the child does not get tired, is not overloaded and at the same time does not lose the acquired knowledge, and in some cases acquires new ones.

It turns out that you can spend time usefully, even sitting at the computer, because a traditional trip on the Internet can be turned into an exciting educational conversation with an online teacher. In this case we are talking about online tutors

, a phenomenon that is quite common today and is gaining increasing popularity in many countries around the world, including Russia.

Online tutor

- this is not a tribute to fashion, but a completely justified necessity of modern life. During the school year, with a constant lack of time, this is sometimes the only solution that allows, without wasting time on travel, to receive prompt assistance in solving complex problems or catching up on missed material. An online tutor comes to the aid of schoolchildren from small cities remote from the center, where it is difficult to find a local tutor, because there are no geographical or time barriers.

And finally, an online tutor is a help to parents and children during the summer holidays, when getting a child to study with textbooks is a very difficult task. Schoolchildren are happy to note that studying online is not only a mandatory duty, but an interesting and useful pastime. And it doesn’t matter where the student is at this time - on the seashore or in the village with his grandmother, at home or in a summer camp - wherever there is Internet access, it is possible to conduct classes.

Today in Russia there are several options for online tutoring. For example, individual tutors who conduct their classes via Skype or using special software, and companies that provide access to a database of tutors. In both cases, any work is carried out directly with a specific teacher and responsibility for the results of the lesson lies entirely with him.

There is another option - contact a company that provides online tutoring services. Such services not only provide the opportunity to learn, but also take responsibility for the learning results, because teachers are hired only after passing tests in the subject and understanding online teaching methods. Instantaneous response to user requests with the ability to provide almost round-the-clock prompt assistance when necessary is one of the key features of such services.

Depending on what goals the student pursues when studying with an online tutor: to improve some specific subjects, to analyze an incomprehensible topic, or to learn a foreign language, an individual lesson schedule is set up.

During the school year

- it is also an “ambulance” when immediate issues arise. For example, if you can’t do your math homework, and it’s getting close to evening, a student can always connect to his teacher and, by asking a question, quickly sort out an incomprehensible topic. Just to sort it out, not to get a ready-made answer.

During the summer holidays

Of course, there are no such “hot” moments, but conducting classes planned in advance will allow you to consolidate previously acquired knowledge or, in the case of foreign languages, to continue learning. After all, as you know, language does not tolerate long silence, and only constant practice and study can one master it perfectly.

Class schedule tailored to the child’s interests

allows you to successfully combine summer holidays, games and study. The child perceives classes not as a necessity, but as an element of an online game and communication. He feels on equal terms with the teacher, being in an understandable and familiar Internet environment. This leads not only to an increase in academic performance, but also to strengthening the student’s independent motivation, creating composure and a sense of responsibility in him.

The best result of such classes is the child’s level of knowledge and personal desire to learn something new. He comes to an online tutor because he is interested and pleased to realize that his knowledge significantly exceeds the school curriculum. Such children, as a rule, come to school on the first of September not only rested, but also very well prepared.

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“When we took it, there was no rain”

In the Chelyabinsk region, deputies of the Knyazhensky settlement of the Bredinsky district wrote an appeal to Governor Alexei Teksler, saying that the local school was in a catastrophic state.

“Over the past ten years, children have been forced to study in unimaginable conditions: lampshades are filled with water, there are buckets and basins filled with water in the corridors and classrooms, water is dripping on the children’s heads. During the year the school does not have time to dry out, since the school is damp. The walls are covered with mold,” the deputies write in the appeal.

They stated that in the spring, due to a strong hurricane, all the soft roofing fell off the roof - and in a three-story building, water runs to the first floor. Previously, only the third floor was flooded. At the same time, according to deputies, there is no progress on the issue of major repairs of the school.

Here the prosecutor's office also became interested in the problem and began checking the deputies' complaints.

The head of the education department of the Bredinsky district, Irina Goldova, in a comment to Izvestia, stated that the situation is not the same as described by the deputies, and said that the school was accepted for the beginning of the school year - taking into account the fact that the soft roof will be repaired by September 1. According to her, money has been allocated for this.

— The school was built in 1982, it is three-story. The design capacity is 464 places, but in fact there are 51 people studying there. In 2020, partial repairs of the soft roof and installation of a rafter roof over the gym were carried out in the amount of 261 thousand rubles. In order to pledge financial resources, an application must be received from the manager, plus an estimate is needed - how much repairs should be planned for. But since 2020, the education department has received no more applications from the school director,” explains Goldova.

According to her, in the spring a strong hurricane wrapped the soft roofing on the roof. Without a statement from the director, an estimate was drawn up and money was allocated - however, only on August 17. A contractor has now been identified; repair work will begin on August 21 and should be completed by September 1. True, the school was accepted just like that, with a leaky roof.

— When the school was accepted, there was no rain, everything was fine, the estimate was drawn up. We knew that they would give us money,” Goldova said.

There are similar problems in educational institutions of the Altai Republic: there, employees of the Rospotrebnadzor department stated that in a number of schools in the Turochaksky, Kosh-Agachsky districts and Gorno-Altaisk, repairs have not yet begun, although, for example, in the Kosh-Agachsky secondary school after the rain The classrooms on the second floor and the assembly hall were flooded.

The problems of a number of schools in other regions are recognized, but often after some incident. For example, in Omsk, students from gymnasium No. 88 are distributed to other schools due to the building being in disrepair. In this gymnasium in September 2020, the ceiling collapsed on a student and she was hospitalized.

At the Zverinogolovskaya secondary school in the Kurgan region, students are temporarily transferred to other schools because the building is undergoing major renovations. Teacher Vladimir Kocheulov told Izvestia: a little over 10 years ago, in order to fix a leaking roof in the building, they had to contact the media - and only after a story on federal channels, the school replaced the soft roof and built a strong truss roof. However, after 10 years, for some reason they decided to remove the new roof, again building a soft roof.

“When they were dismantling the roof, there was a heavy downpour, and all the offices from the third to the first floor were spilled, now they are in disrepair,” said Kocheulov. — Computers, printers, all the equipment was flooded with water. The renovation there will now probably take several years. Everything there is smudged. Who will bear responsibility?

What to do with the children

Former head of Rosobrnadzor, scientific director of the Center for Monitoring the Quality of Education at the HSE Institute of Education, Viktor Bolotov, believes: the procedure for accepting schools in itself is working, but problems that arise still need to be sorted out locally.

— The school is accepted for several reasons. It is accepted by the Rospotrebnadzor authorities, which have fairly strict criteria, fire supervision, as well as representatives of the district education department, who look at the school’s readiness for the educational process, Bolotov explained. — The condition of the school—whether the roof is leaking or not—is monitored by Rospotrebnadzor, which looks at whether classes can be held there. Some inspections are carried out on paper, some on the spot. But this is not a situation where the director writes that everything is fine, and the commission signs: they must go to the school and look.

He notes: if district officials check the readiness of schools specifically for the educational process, then school safety is checked by representatives of departments not subordinate to local administrations. However, there can still be many problems - for example, the director signs an acceptance certificate for repair work without checking, or the district does not allocate money for repairs.

— We are all human: it can also happen that the act of readiness is signed, but the school is actually not ready. But it also happened that a school was not accepted because of poorly painted floors, although it was possible to carry out the educational process there, says Bolotov.

According to him, many problems arise for officials if the school is not accepted - it is not clear where to take the children: whether there is a school nearby within transport accessibility or not. Therefore, they try to carry out all repair work during the summer.

— In recent years, many schools have been built in rural areas that would be the envy of urban areas. But there are also schools left without toilets and water - municipalities have no money. As a result, some pretend that everything is in order, while others pretend that they checked everything,” says Bolotov.

School is out, where should I take my child for the summer?

The TEDDY Club conducted its own investigation on the topic of “where to send a child in the summer,” and this is what happened. We present you with various options. You can combine them at your discretion, for example, the child spends 2 weeks in one place, then a week in another, etc.

1. We send the child to visit his grandmother , grandfather, aunt, uncle, etc. Perhaps one of your loved ones is on maternity leave or does not work. You can negotiate a nominal fee. 2. School camp. Check to see if your or a nearby school probably has one. You bring your child in the morning and pick him up around 17-18 hours. Usually the payment for such a service is very small. However, school camps usually operate in June. You still need to look for options for July-August. School is out, where should I take my child for the summer? 3. City camp. Such a camp will cost more than a school one, but it usually runs all summer. Children are usually brought in at 8-8.30 and picked up around 18.30. The child is fed and entertained here. Children always enjoy city tours. True, unlike a school camp, you need to transport your child to a city camp. It may be quite far from your home. 4. Camp outside the city. Children are accepted to such camps from about 6 years old. However, only a few decide to send their child far from home at this age. They wait until the child grows up. A camp in a resort area of Ukraine will not only give your child an unforgettable experience, but will also help improve your child’s health. However, the cost of keeping a child on shift can hit your pocket hard, because the cost of a shift (21 days) can start from 6,000-8,000 UAH (camp in central Ukraine). A camp at sea will cost about twice as much. 5. We hire a nanny. This option should also be considered. The nanny can be a teacher or teacher on vacation, a student at a pedagogical institute, a housemate, etc. Think about who you can trust with your child. The nanny can work on her territory (then every morning you bring the child to her home and pick her up in the evening) or on yours. Cost - as agreed. 6. Cooperation of mothers. Also very difficult to organize, but very effective option. Discuss with moms you know from the playground or from kindergarten/school what plans they have for the summer. Surely, they also faced the same problem of “where to send (take) the child in the summer.” What if you organize a shift, for example, for a week. This week one mother sits with the children (two, three, four...), next week the children come to another mother. And if some mother does not work or is on maternity leave with her second child, then for a nominal fee she could look after the children longer. You can also negotiate with the mothers of your city on various forums.

We hope that our ideas on “where to take your child in the summer” will help you. We recommend that you think about this in advance, so that when summer comes, you are already racking your brains about where to send your child.

What is the benefit

Dmitry Kazakov, a history teacher at a rural school in the Nizhny Novgorod region, a member of the board of the interregional trade union of educators “Teacher,” notes: I would like more funding for schools, but it is not at all profitable for directors to not care about the condition of the building.

“Schools are preparing not for the commission, but for the academic year,” says Kazakov. — Maybe something is missing somewhere, but which of the directors benefits from taking and not preparing the school? They accept children for nine months so that they are in normal conditions. And when the school year starts, something leaks, the windows fall out - the director will be responsible for this and pay a fine. The question is different - you need to understand that the maintenance of buildings is at the level of the municipality, which may not have enough money. And indeed, in some areas, areas where there are not very many funds, difficulties arise.

It’s really up to the directors to answer: for example, in January 2020, the prosecutor’s office of the Sakhalin region through the court fined the director of a school in the village of Chekhov for organizing the educational process in a dilapidated building. The walls of the school, including load-bearing ones, had cracks in this school, the gym, part of the school’s educational building, and workshops were in disrepair. During the investigation, schooling was suspended. And in February 2020, the village was promised to build a new school - only after the prosecutor’s office took up the matter. Read more >>>