Prosecutor's Office Acts on Students' Cold Class Complaints
The prosecutor«s office is investigating complaints about cold conditions in schools across the region.
Schoolchildren and students from Yugra (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) complained to the head of the League for Safe Internet, Ekaterina Mizulina, about the cold in their classrooms. Some have to sit through lessons wearing jackets.
It all started with indignation from high school students in Nyagan over the lack of weather-related school closures. According to the students, weather conditions are assessed unfairly. The thermometer reaches temperatures at which classes should be canceled even for grades 9–11. But in the end, a different temperature is recorded, and pupils have to go to school.
Moreover, as the students write, it is unbearably cold in the classrooms because the school is inadequately heated. They have to bring their outerwear to class.
Later, similar reports from schoolchildren in Uray and students in Mezhdurechensky were added to the complaints of the young Nyagan residents, which Mizulina published on social media. Children go to classes in -35 degrees Celsius (-31°F), even though educational institutions are very cold. The students say that even teachers complain about the poor heating. Some of them bring small heaters.
The prosecutor«s office in Nyagan has already responded to the students» messages, and an inspection is being conducted.
«During the inspection, with the involvement of specialists in the field of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, an assessment will be made of the compliance by the educational organization and the local self-government body with the requirements of education legislation,» the supervisory authority reported.
Earlier we wrote that due to abnormal cold passenger buses were canceled between Yugra and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
