Leanid Zaika: Cows And Pigs - Competitors To Teachers

Teachers are also milked: they are sent to collect signatures for this or that candidate from the authorities.

Leanid Zaika, head of the Strategy Analytical Centre, says he's on the side of children, not teachers and parents, because children are left behind in this situation, Salidarnasts reports.

- In schools, such cases occur every day. If the 'president' said the cows are in sh...t, why can't the teacher say that you will be dead?

According to Zaika, such stories at school occur because the mannerliness of children and teachers has decreased.

Speaking about the status of a teacher in Belarus and why the money to finish the repair of dairy farms has been found in the budget, while the funds to build new schools and raise teachers' salaries are still being searched for, the expert said:

- In Belarus, there is an agricultural lobby at all levels. It is building pig houses and barns. Cows and pigs are competitors to teachers.

And he added that the teachers are also milked: they are sent to collect signatures for this or that candidate from the authorities.