Ufa school to face inspection over bullying allegations

Law enforcement and district administration representatives will visit a school in Ufa due to a conflict among third-grade students. As UFA1.RU was told by the mother of one of them, her child transferred to the new school in September and immediately began to be bullied and beaten. However, the school principal assures that there is no bullying — just a «conflict of interests.» We provide details.

School No. 27 is located on Komsomolskaya Street and has over 1,300 students. As a UFA1.RU reader reported, her son transferred here from another institution in September but immediately faced misunderstanding, with classmates beginning to oppress and beat him.

“We appealed to the parents multiple times, asking them to help stop it. It got to the point where they waited for the child in the bathroom and beat him, ambushed him after classes and attacked him in a group. At a general meeting, the teacher confirmed this and asked the parents of those children to stop, but things are only getting worse,” the Ufa resident insists.

She sent the editorial office a video, dated, according to her, November 5 of this year. In it, other children rush at the child after exiting to the schoolyard — they swing at him with a bag containing indoor shoes. As the boy’s mother claims, the parents of the children allegedly encourage their actions.

But school principal Alla Yagudina has a different version.

“This situation [according to the mother] is incorrect. There is, of course, a conflict of interests there, but there is no bullying whatsoever. His mother and father have written about it everywhere they can. You are not the first to call today. We will now have explanations for my superiors, the [city] administration. Therefore, we are appointing a prevention council with all the ensuing consequences. I think the conflict will be resolved,” commented the principal.

By “conflict of interests,” she meant a conflict among the children: the complainant’s boy came into “an established class group” but behaves, as the principal says, arrogantly. What that means — the school head decided not to specify.

“Remember yourself, what you were like in school. He’s not downtrodden, so to speak. A nice boy. He just knows how to answer back. That’s all. Oh, it’s nothing, they’ll make up,” said Alla Yagudina.

Regarding what happens in the video, the principal says that it was filmed by the student’s mother — and now there are questions for her, because she did not come to help her son, whom she sees being hit with the shoe bag. According to Alla Yagudina, the parent should have stood up for the child, not filmed secretly.

Now the situation will be handled by the prevention council, and its composition is impressive: the school’s psychological services, invited independent experts, representatives of the district administration, the education department, the parent community, parents of the conflicting children, and police officers.

“Such conflicts are resolved through a settlement agreement. All representatives will be interviewed together with the children, this conflict, this sore needs to be opened up so that all the negativity comes out. So that both the children hear it, and the parents, and external organizations also help with advice. We already have some kind of solution. Then it will be announced, recorded, and will have some effect,” commented Alla Yagudina.

The principal emphasized that “if this doesn’t help” — that doesn’t work here. The school lives, as she says, without “if.”

“There is a fact — it needs to be solved. But ‘if’ is not our practice,” she concluded.

Recall that earlier the Investigative Committee of Bashkortostan took an interest in bullying in Ishimbay: according to the sister of a student, she is regularly bullied, causing the girl to stop attending classes. In the opinion of a psychologist, such incidents should not remain secret — for the victim, the main thing is not to remain silent about it and not to fear publicity. A parent, in turn, can raise the appropriate question at a meeting.