They are ready to make an exception only for physical education.
The Russian language and mathematics are the two pillars that support the school examination system. As for the Unified State Exam, what now, these subjects have always been and will probably be mandatory for absolutely all graduates.
But Russia would not be Russia if it did not continue to invent the educational “wheel.” Every year new surprises and rules await graduates. So, mathematics is no longer a single whole, but a basic exam for everyone in a row and a more complex profile for those who enter technical universities. In 2020, history may become mandatory, in 2022 they plan to add a foreign language to this list, and at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva dreamed of how good it would be if literature was included in the list of mandatory …
It is also surprising that social studies are not proposed to be obligatory. This is, by the way, the most popular exam. In 2017, about 358 thousand people take it – more than half of this year’s graduates.
– The most useless item. Nothing at all. That is why they choose – very simple, – the parents of graduates who pass physics and computer science say acrimoniously.
It is clear that all this does not add peace of mind to students and their parents. “Not to escalate the situation with uncertainty” is proposed in the Public Chamber. True, the methods were chosen rather strange.
– Let’s stop these conversations already: today we will do the USE in history, tomorrow we will do the USE in literature. It is necessary to make all the subjects that are studied in school, except, perhaps, physical education, mandatory, ” RIA Novosti quotes Roman Doschinsky, a member of the Commission for the Development of Science and Education of the Public Chamber.
Roman Anatolyevich, by the way, is not a stranger to the education system. He himself is a teacher of the Russian language and literature of international qualifications, an examiner of the Unified State Examination in this subject. And he has his own arguments. According to Doschinsky, such a general state certification will help us return to classical education – full, high-quality and deep. In general, the same one for which we have sighed for the last fifteen years, since the testing of the new examination system began in the country.
– For example, I am offended for the subjects of the natural science cycle … It never occurs to anyone to say publicly to the whole country: let’s make biology (obligatory. – Ed. Note), – the philologist intercedes for his colleagues. – In general, biology is a science about life.
Good idea, everyone. But how will the schoolchildren themselves cope with such a load? You take five exams here for almost a month, but what if there are fifteen of them? A member of the Public Chamber also thought about this.
– They can be distributed: something at the stage of the 9th grade surrenders, something at the stage of the 11th grade, – said Doschinsky.