Lukashenko Was Just Being Himself

Who is the real “scoundrel”?

During a regular meeting, Lukashenko demanded that officials “protect children from scoundrels in the education sector.” Fair enough, since this has long been necessary. But there is one caveat, writes "Solidarnast" writes.

The issue is not that, in this case, the ruler ordered a crackdown on private tutors. The real problem lies not with them at all—no matter how hard Lukashenko himself, the institution of private tutoring, and the education minister he appointed try to discredit them. They called the wrong people “crooks.”

No one has caused as many problems for Belarusian education as Lukashenko himself has over more than three decades in power. Endless revisions of curricula and textbooks, ill-conceived reforms—this is by no means an exhaustive list.

The man who has brought back musty Soviet practices to schools—from collecting waste paper and scrap metal, to participating in harvest work instead of studying, to “voluntary-compulsory” membership in pseudo-patriotic organizations.

We need to protect our children not from tutors, but from those who brainwash them with propaganda, who stage photo shoots with weapons for them, and who prepare them for the role of future cannon fodder.

Unfortunately, solving this problem depends directly on the departure from power of the chief “defender” of Belarusian children.

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