President Vladimir Putin Last year, he signed a decree on the purchase of new school buses for the regions of the country. In total, cities and towns will receive more than 1,800 new school buses in 2016. More than three billion rubles will be spent on the purchase of vehicles.
Krasnodar: 80 children will go on foot. There is a school bus, but there is no driver.
IN last month In the summer, an unexpected transport problem faced the management of secondary school No. 6, which is located in the small village of Novoleushkovskaya, Pavlovsk district Krasnodar region. The driver of the school bus quits his job at will, as a result, just before the start school year The transportation of dozens of children to classes and back was in question. Of the nearly six hundred children who study here, about eighty took the bus last year. The distance to the school from the remote streets of the village reaches five kilometers.
Now everything possible is being done to find a new driver as soon as possible. But due to a number of circumstances, this is not such a simple task.
“The previous driver worked for more than eight years, and we also looked for him for a long time and begged him to come to us,” says school director Olga Esaulenko. - And now we are looking again. But the fact is that the salary is only 12 thousand. For young people this is not enough, but for people of pre-retirement age it is too much responsibility. In addition, when hiring a school bus driver, very high demands are placed on him. You need to collect a lot of documents, have at least three years of experience, and be sure to present a certificate of no criminal record. And by the way, it takes up to a month and a half to complete. Therefore, now I don’t even know what will happen to us from the first of September. But there are candidates."
According to Olga Nikolaevna, in the new school year there are expected to be even more people wanting to ride the bus than in the past. To do this, parents write applications, and not everyone has yet managed to submit them. An advantage for the new driver will be that from September 1, the school will work in one shift, whereas in the past there were two. Thus, it will be necessary to transport children from seven in the morning to three days, and with a break of three hours. Another thing is that it is not yet entirely clear whether everyone who wants to study will be accommodated in one shift. If in warm weather many are still ready to walk, then in bad weather everyone rushes to the bus.
Rostov: parents discuss on social networks how their children wait for a school bus in the cold and heat for four hours
Former village teacher, and now a deputy legislative assembly Rostov region Larisa Tutova believes that in the Rostov region there is no problem of access to rural schools for children.
Classes are underway at a rural school. Photo: AiF/ Vitaly Kolbasin
“All territories have buses; another thing is that the cars will soon require replacement!” — the deputy told the AiF.ru correspondent.
Confirms the words of the deputy and Governor Vasily Golubev, who reported that rural children are fully provided with school buses to travel to classes.
On the Don, 905 drivers and 891 buses were allowed to work, which will transport children.
At a rural school. Photo: AiF/ Vitaly Kolbasin
Inspectors checked the presence of the GLONASS system in the buses, devices for recording the work and rest hours of drivers, as well as the technical serviceability of the transport.
“After all the inspection activities, the police briefed the drivers, reminded them that they are responsible for the lives and health of children, and urged them to take care of the safety of their little passengers,” said the Rostov Region Traffic Police.
However, on the eve of September 1, residents of the Rostov region are discussing the work of school buses on social networks and, based on the experience of previous years, they assume what awaits their children in the new school year.
“We had three buses running, everything was great two years ago, but then for some reason we ran out of money for gas and started extorting money from our parents. When we contacted the district administration, they responded that they had financed it. Indeed, gasoline was found,” says a villager.
The parent adds that the bus’s adventures did not end there: “There were two drivers, but one suddenly became seriously ill for a year. As a result, elementary school students sat at the bus stop for four hours in the heat and cold, waited, and then the bus was overloaded. The only thing is that they finally made a stop.”
Due to the low salaries of drivers, men try in every possible way to avoid this work. Therefore, rural residents encourage district officials to think creatively. Namely, to use school buses for auxiliary transportation of other cargo.
“The bus took the children and is standing still, that’s why there is no money. And let him, between transporting schoolchildren, work for the benefit of the village, perform commercial flights to earn extra money for the driver, then he will have an incentive to transport children,” the parent advises.
Chelyabinsk: children go for off-road knowledge
In the Chelyabinsk village of Novosineglazovsky, which is part of the South Ural capital, children are forced to walk to school, covering a distance of three kilometers. And those who study in specialized educational institutions for health reasons cannot attend classes at all.
The road to school passes through abandoned garages, fields, and industrial facilities. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova
The fact is that the village of Novosineglazovsky, which is part of the city, is deprived of educational institutions. Actually, there are two schools here, but they are located at the entrance, near the transport stop. That is, children living in this part of the village are quite likely to go to educational institutions.
Another thing is the outskirts of the village. It is spread out so that several dozen houses are located in that part of it where there is no transport in principle. It so happened that lion's share There are no residents and no private cars. This means that their children are forced to walk to school every day, covering three kilometers one way. The school bus does not travel: this is impossible, the road consists of potholes and ravines. What is it like to get there in winter? The situation is complicated by the fact that the road along the industrial enterprises located here is extremely bad.
The three-kilometer path of the students runs past this sign. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova
Parents of children living in this part of Novosineglazovsky addressed a collective statement to Commissioner for Human Rights of the region Margarita Pavlova: "Through our private sector there is only one road common use which is in a broken state. We, our entire residential sector, appealed to various authorities to have our road repaired and pedestrian path for our children. Since heavy equipment drives along the only and broken road, I personally fear for the safety of my child.”
The crushed stone plant creates a threat: huge heavy trucks roar out of it, leaving behind clouds of dust. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova
According to residents, not everyone has the opportunity to accompany their child there and meet and lead him back every day. Adding to the complexity is the fact that there are industrial facilities here. This means that children can fall under the wheels of heavy trucks. And this is the pain and fear of parents.
“The nearest school is 3 km away. My child goes to school along a dangerous route, where Belaz and Kamaz vehicles drive, putting their lives in danger. The school bus refuses to travel due to the condition of the road,” the parents wrote in the appeal.
The road to school for children seems endless. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova
The hardest thing was Danila Galkin. This boy with musculoskeletal problems studies in a special school in Chelyabinsk. This means that a disabled child needs to somehow get to the stop, which is three kilometers away, get on the transport, and get to school with a transfer. It so happens that Danila does not go to school for weeks: this is impossible.
Danila’s grandmother admits that it is so difficult to get to a boarding school for disabled children that the child sometimes misses classes, especially in winter. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova
Residents joke sadly: this is where the crushed stone plant is located, which produces the very crushed stone that would be nice to fill the road with. He and the commissioner came to the meeting with the residents and Head of the Sovetsky District of Chelyabinsk Mikhail Burenkov, whose territorial competence includes the village. The official agreed: yes, the road is bad, and promised to restore order in this matter.
Local residents say that the road was made for them after the head’s promise. But not at all the way I wanted. That is, they brought the mixture and filled up the really terrible areas - potholes and potholes - near the garages. It has improved, but is far from ideal. This means that children will probably walk again.
Volgograd: a child has a 40-minute drive to a correctional school
Svetlana M. lives in the village of Metallist, Kamyshin urban district, Volgograd region. Her 13-year-old daughter and another neighbor girl study at a special school, which is 40 minutes away by minibus. Svetlana even had to leave her job to take her child and her neighbors’ daughter to classes.
“We are located within the city, but this is a village. We have one minibus No. 6. I have a disabled child, and therefore it is very difficult for us to get to school,” said Svetlana.
Of course, Svetlana could have sent her daughter to a school closer to her, but there is no talk of any inclusive education in a city with a population of 100,000. And there is only one specialized school for children in the whole of Kamyshin.
“It’s scary to let one child with special needs go so far, she’s very trusting, she can go with anyone or get lost,” says Svetlana. — The school bus doesn’t go to our school. He goes to school No. 17, but doesn’t pick up our children. Our children, the correctional class, get there as best they can.”
In the very educational institution, according to Svetlana, this issue cannot be resolved - there is no funding. At the same time, the distance between a regular school and a correctional school is a little more than a kilometer, which makes it difficult to pick up children from both schools by one bus - it is unclear.
Perm: memories of a former schoolgirl who walked 3 kilometers to school
Elena Pyankova was born in Ocher, which has a population of about 15 thousand people. There are only three schools in the small town. As the girl recalls, one educational institution was located near her home, but had a bad reputation.
“The other school was located in the city center, three kilometers from me, but was prestigious. There was a gymnasium class there. I remember my mother and grandmother argued for a long time about where to send the child. In the end, I intervened, saying, “I’m choosing a more respectable place for myself,” she says.
Permian Elena Pyankova. Photo from personal archive
Elena started first grade in 1995. In a remote city, the length of which from one end to the other is about 10 km, there were almost no buses. The young girl decided to walk to her new school. According to the girl, the parents were scared to let the child go alone, so at first she moved with her classmates.
The entire journey took about half an hour: 10 minutes you had to walk along a rural road through a private sector, then another 15 minutes along a birch alley and along the shore of a pond, then turn in the center - and all the way to the school.
“It was scary to come back after the second shift. In the private sector, the lights were actually not lit, and next to my house, plus everything, there was a colony for juvenile delinquents and Orphanage. Fortunately, everything worked out fine, and nothing bad ever happened,” adds Elena.
Surprisingly, after many years, having moved to Perm, the girl, who is now 28 years old, got a job not far from her residential complex and now walks again. True, it’s no longer three kilometers, like in childhood. Now, she says, they are running a minibus, but not a special school bus. That is, getting there has become easier, but not entirely simple.
School time has arrived, and crowds of children rush to school. It turns out that for some schoolchildren the road to the temple of knowledge itself is a very difficult and risky undertaking. And not because they need to cross a busy street along pedestrian crossing green light, and at great risk to life to cross a raging river, mountain range or emergency suspension bridge over a hundred-meter abyss.
Unfortunately, there are places on our planet where education is a great luxury and only because the usual journey to school turns into a very dangerous event. Due to the difficult natural terrain and the remote location of some small settlements, children have to overcome unimaginably difficult routes and enormous distances to get to school.
Watch shocking footage of dangerous school routes and show the horror to children so they can see the effort their peers put in to gain knowledge. Surely, after seeing this, the majority will stop being capricious about the inconvenience of traveling on the subway or trolleybus and will begin to appreciate their living and studying conditions more.
1. Genguang Village from Guizhou Province (China)
Every day, village children overcome a dangerous path through the mountainous terrain, passing one after another along a very narrow path carved into the rock, hugging the stones as much as possible. You also have to go through overhanging boulders in the tunnel. Every morning the school director gathers the children and takes them through all these obstacles, and in the evening accompanies them back along the same route.
2. Batu Busuk Village in Sumatra (Indonesia)
20 students from this village cross a very dangerous route every day. metal cable, which remains after the suspension bridge over the river, and then they walk almost 10 kilometers through the forest to get to the city of Padang, where their school is located.
They have been making this journey for two whole years because the old bridge collapsed after heavy rains, and the new authorities began to do so only after this photo was seen by the world.
3. Villages of Suro and Plempungan on the island of Java (Indonesia)
Since no one has built a bridge between the banks, the residents of the two villages have to cross to the other side via a water pipeline. Students use this dangerous way transfers in order to save time. After all, if you walk along the road, it will take more than two hours.
4. Sangsyan Village in Tanjung (Indonesia)
Children of this settlement crossing the river on an emergency suspension bridge to get to their school. Although this is a dangerous path, it is the shortest, because the other bridge is located three kilometers from their village. When the media showed such a dangerous road to knowledge, there were companies and organizations that began to build a new and safe crossing across the Siberang River so that children's lives would not be endangered.
5. Rizal Village (Philippines)
Students from this village use regular inflated inner tubes to swim to their school. To such an extreme waterway it takes about an hour and this is in good conditions weather conditions. Well, during bad weather or a river flood, they simply do not attend school. Residents of the village have been trying to get the authorities to build a bridge for several years now, but in the meantime their children, risking their lives, sail on improvised boats to gain knowledge.
6. Trong Hoa Village (Vietnam)
Several dozen schoolchildren from this locality also swim to school. But they have to do this without any equipment, just undress, put things away and school supplies in a plastic bag and swim to the other side. This package serves as a support for them in such a dangerous crossing, because the depth of the river reaches 20 meters!
7. Dekun Village (China)
The children of this village use a homemade cable car to get to school, flying over an abyss in a metal box. Even many adults cannot cope with such a test, but they are very happy even with such a terrible method of transportation, because if you walk, it will take a whole five hours!
8. Rainforest Settlement (Colombia)
Small settlements scattered in the forest do not have the ability to build bridges, so they can only use cable cars as their only connection with outside world. Because of this, their children are forced to get to school using primitive mechanisms and carabiners, even without safety belts. It’s scary to imagine, but the length of such crossings is about a kilometer, and the speed of movement reaches 80 kilometers per hour!
9. Zhaojun Village (China)
Children from a remote mountain village climb a steep 800-meter climb up rickety stairs perched on steep cliffs to get to their school. They make such a trip once every two weeks, and it takes them two hours to overcome such a height. They set off on this difficult and dangerous journey with their parents, who accompany them in turn, trying to insure them with the help of all kinds of devices.
10. Pili Boarding School in the Himalayas (China)
The longest journey to school is made by students from the Pili boarding school, located high in the mountains. Children cover a huge distance of 201 kilometers on foot at the end and beginning of the school year. This dangerous journey passes through the Xin Jiang Mountains and four rivers. The path is incredibly difficult and very dangerous, because they go close to sheer cliffs, and you have to cross cold rivers using a 200-meter chain bridge and small bridges made of one plank.
For schoolchildren in such remote areas, getting to school is akin to a feat, and once they get to class, they carefully listen to every word of the teacher. It is very difficult to teach students, spoiled by all the benefits of civilization, to value knowledge and what they have. Therefore, to interest children.
For parents who decide to send their child to study abroad, and especially for those who do it for the first time, this question is one of the most important.
In this article we will talk about all the ways and possibilities of organizing a trip.
It is worth adding that any of the listed options can be combined with a “difficult” route. For example, a child flies from Moscow and returns to the parents’ vacation spot: Montenegro, Italy, Bulgaria or any other country. Typically, such routes are in demand in the summer.
Option 1. The child flies with an airline escort.
Purchasing an escorted ticket. Accompaniment by an airline representative is arranged simultaneously with the purchase of a ticket. Our employees will betray everything necessary information to the airline about who will accompany and meet the child in Moscow. The airline requires you to indicate the degree of relationship, telephone number and address. As a rule, the child is accompanied by the parents.
We also provided the airline with detailed information about who will meet and accompany the child at the airport of arrival (London, Paris, New York or another city). Children are always met by an authorized school representative.
We will provide the same information to parents (or legal representatives) to fill out special form to accompany a child during check-in for a flight. This document is required for accompanied children and is handed over to the airline representative at the check-in counter for the flight.
Departure procedure. An airline representative, usually a flight attendant, will ensure that all accompanying children pass through passport control and escort them on board or, if the flight is delayed, to the airline office or a designated area where the children will wait to board the flight.
They try to seat accompanying children next to each other in the aircraft cabin to make it easier to keep an eye on everyone.
At the arrival airport The flight attendant will take the child by the hand to the arrival hall, make sure that the child quickly passes passport control and receives luggage with him.
Next, children are escorted to the arrivals hall and handed over to the welcoming school representative. In the absence of a representative, children will be placed in the airline office or in another specially designated room. This happens at every airport.
Upon arrival, school representatives present their identification and only after that do they pick up their students.
On the way back support is also organized reliably. Only the children are handed over to the flight attendant by school representatives, and are met in Russia by their parents, who are also required to present identification documents to the airline representative.
Important: if instead of the parents, whose data we transmitted to the airline initially, another person, for example, a grandmother, arrives as a seeing-off and meeting party in Russia, then a problem may arise. Most airlines will only hand over a child after contacting the parents.
Option 2. The child flies as part of a group.
in demand in cases where parents cannot accompany the child themselves, but also do not want to let him go alone...
From time to time, our company organizes group trips with our accompanying person. In this case, parents can consent to the departure of their child, either accompanied by our representative or unaccompanied.
In an Aeroport Everyone meets with the group leader in front of the check-in counter for the flight and the parents hand over their children to him. The manager makes sure that everyone goes through passport control and boards the plane. Upon arrival, the group leader will help with passport control and will also make sure that everyone goes to the meeting point, where a school representative will be waiting for the group.
Parents will receive the accompanying person's phone number in advance and can contact him with any questions, especially if they cannot contact the child directly.
Our representative will have all the telephone numbers of the parents and children accompanied by him. The group leader lives in the same area as the children and is always aware of everything that is happening.
Option 3. VIP service - individual accompaniment of the child by an EduTravel employee.
Sometimes parents want their child to be accompanied to school by a member of our staff.
This is also possible. Payment of support costs is paid according to the price list and is specified in accordance with the wishes of the customer.
The following expenses are usually covered:
- taxi costs from our employee’s place of residence to the airport and back;
- air travel;
- hotel at least 4*, single room with breakfast (minimum one night);
- transport within the country of study (taxi or public at the client’s choice);
- insurance and travel expenses
Our employee, starting from the airport of departure, will accompany the child to school, hand him over to a representative of the school administration, and conduct all necessary negotiations. If necessary, he will help you find accommodation, purchase necessary supplies or local SIM card.
As a rule, such accompaniment is not required on the way back, because the child will already get comfortable, find friends and, perhaps, he will go to the airport with other students. But if reverse support is required, then this is also possible.
Option 4. Parents themselves drop off and/or pick up the child.
Some parents take their children to school themselves. They can bring their child to school by taxi or public transport. Parents should understand that in this case they will have to communicate with school representatives in English. Sometimes the children themselves help them communicate. But we make sure to notify the school what time they will appear, because... strangers cannot be on the premises.
Without our notification, parents may not be able to enter the school grounds.
There are schools where visits from adults are strictly prohibited.
There are often situations when parents come to the country of study at the end of the course and independently pick up their child from school. And in this case, it is necessary to notify the school in advance that the child will be picked up by the parents.
We hope that we were able to answer most of your questions and alleviate some of the concerns associated with organizing the flight of children. We are waiting for you and your children to choose the most convenient flight option for you during personal communication!
If your child is lazy to go to school (“You have to cross the road!”), tell him about children who risk their lives on the way to school. Or better yet, show the documentary series “The Road to School,” which is shown on the Travel+Adventure TV channel. Here are some stories of brave children from Vietnam, China, Nepal and Malaysia who live in difficult places.
Sho (10 years old), Vietnam
Sho lives in a remote area of Vietnam - Meo Vac. Not every child here manages to get into school: some parents do not allow their children to study for fear that they will forget their culture. Sho and her sisters vowed to honor the values of the Hmong, their mountain people. And their own culture certainly won’t prevent them from finishing school. Moreover, their parents support them in this in every possible way.
Sho gets to school in about 1 hour and 15 minutes. The road itself runs along dangerous mountain paths. If fog rises (and this happens often here), the stones become wet and the walk takes even longer.
In the village where Sho lives, there is no running water or electricity. That's why the girls do their homework by candlelight. And on weekends they help their parents with housework. Sho also dreams of becoming a teacher to teach the people of her village to read and write. After all, then children will not have to go to school every day along dangerous mountain paths.
Jiao-Jiao (11 years old), China
Jiao-Jiao, like Sho, also lives in the mountains, but belongs to ancient people- Qiang. In her village, education is taken seriously, so children spend a lot of time studying.
In order for village children to get to school, they need to cross a river over rocks, go through mountain gorges that are often shrouded in fog, and other difficult places. Temperatures in the mountains can change dramatically, and it often rains. This one is already difficult path It’s also quite long – two and a half hours. That's why Jiao-Jiao studies at a boarding school: she goes to school for five days at once.
On weekends, Jiao-Jiao helps the family: she brings lunch to her grandfather, who herds goats and collects herbs and mushrooms. Mom teaches her daughter traditional embroidery and other important customs of her people: songs, dances and worship of the gods.
Jiao-Jiao's parents believe that studying at school will give the girl new opportunities in life that they did not have.
Jiao-Jiao also dreams of teaching: “I have wanted to become a teacher since elementary school. A teacher must know a lot; his task is to transmit knowledge. Our village has few inhabitants, but many different trees and animals. And the city is full of people and very lively. I prefer quiet places, where there are few people and where you can live surrounded by animals.”
Kritika (11 years old), Nepal
Kritika also lives in the mountains, her village is in the Himalayas. In Nepal, schooling is compulsory, but in reality not all children go to school. Many parents keep their children with them as helpers. But Kritika’s mother decided that her children should study and get a profession.
It takes Kritika an hour to get to school, but it really isn't that long. Previously, she spent the whole day traveling to school. Now Kritika only needs to overcome several sharp descents in the mountains and a suspension bridge (not very good condition). If she and her mother had not moved, then most likely she, like many other children in Nepal, would not have been able to continue her studies.
Besides schoolwork, Kritika has a lot to do around the house: she helps her mother cook, gardens and cleans. The father left to work and does not live with them. In the evenings, Kritika gathers her neighbors and tells them what she learned at school that day.
Ani (11 years old), Malaysia
Ani lives by the sea, he is from the Bajo people. His ancestors traveled from island to island to fish. Now the Bajo live in one place, but they have not forgotten fishing. Their houses are located on stilts. Until recently, Anya’s parents could not afford to send him to school. But now their financial situation has improved a little, and Ani went to school.
Anya's journey to school takes an hour. His cousin sees Ani off every day on the pirogue. But anything can happen on the road: there may be a hole in the boat, and in general there are many dangers in the water. Ani has already decided that when he grows up, he will become a teacher in English, and his children will definitely go to school.
Hard science or how the world's children get to school
Students high school crossing the Ranteangin River on their way home to Maroko Village, Kolaka Utara, Indonesia.
Schoolchildren on a raft on their way to an elementary school in Montalban, northeast of Manila, Philippines.
A man pushes a tub of children on his way home from school in a flooded area in Duchang, Jiangxi province, China.
Children climb steps on their way to school over Mount Fifa, in Jaz, south of Saudi Arabia.
Schoolboy climbing up metal stairs, returning home after classes. Lianshan Province Sichuan, China.
High school students on the roof wooden boat, on the Muzi River, on the way to school in Palembang, on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
A woman accompanies schoolchildren on the first day of classes in the village of Cawag, Philippines.
Xu Liangfang walks along a path with schoolchildren at a dizzying height. They are on their way to Banpo Primary School in Guizhou Province, China.
Students walk across the remains of a collapsed bridge as they cross the Lebak River in the village of Banten in Indonesia.
Schoolgirls walk across a boardwalk on the walls of the 16th-century Galle Fort, Sri Lanka.
Xie Bihua (left), a 47-year-old teacher at a rural primary school in a mountainous area, leads his students along a path to their homes. Autonomous Okrug Miao, Guizhou Province, China.
Students in rubber boots, use chairs as a bridge to move into the classroom in primary school Sitio Tapayan in Taytay, Rizal Province, north of Manila, Philippines.
Primary school students walk along a road in an area slated for demolition after school in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.
Boys primary classes remove benches from a school after their school was flooded due to heavy rains in the village of Bassi Kalan on the outskirts of Jammu, India.
Primary school boys wade across a river on their way to school in the village of Nagari Koto Nan Tigo in West Sumatra province, Indonesia.
High school students hitch a ride to school in the village of Ibsheu el-Malak, Egypt.
Schoolchildren walk near a Geiger counter, which shows radiation levels of 0.12 microiveverts per hour, at Omika Elementary School, about 15 kilometers from nuclear power plant Tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi in Minamisoma, Japan.
Children cross a damaged pedestrian bridge built over a river on their way home from school in Srinagar, India.
Girls ford a river on their way to school in the village of Nagari Koto Nan Tigo in West Sumatra province, Indonesia.
Schoolchildren are transported by boat across the Bengawan Solo River on their way to school in Boyonegoro, East Java Province, Indonesia.