Russian forces arrest an occupied city's education chief during a struggle over changing the curricu
Source: NY Times
Russian forces arrest an occupied city’s education chief during a struggle over changing the curriculum.
Russian forces detained the head of the education department in the occupied southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, the mayor there said on Monday, after the department and teachers pushed back against orders to overhaul the curriculum.
The mayor, Ivan Fedorov, said in a video posted on Monday evening that Irina Shcherbak, the head of Melitopol’s department of education, had been taken. He had previously said that Russian forces were trying to impose a shift in what and how schools taught, with the aim of classes restarting in Russian on Friday.
Students in the city have continued classes online, but local officials have stressed that it was too dangerous for children to return to the classroom. Melitopol, in a key stretch of southeastern territory between Russian-annexed Crimea and areas controlled by separatists in the east, has been occupied by Russian forces since the early days of the invasion.
“The occupiers go to schools, kindergartens and force our teachers and educators to resume the educational process using an incomprehensible Russian program,” Mr. Fedorov said in the video. “No director of the school and kindergarten agreed to interact with the occupiers. They found nothing better than to kidnap the head of the state department of education, Irina Shcherbak.”
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