Residents Complain to Mizulina About Partial School Closures in Cold
Trans-Ural residents complained to the head of the Safe Internet League, Yekaterina Mizulina, that on January 26 in Kurgan Oblast, classes were cancelled only for grades 1 to 4. She wrote about this in her Telegram channel, attaching the appeal.
«Letters continue to come in regarding issues with weather-related school closures from Tyumen Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, and other regions of the Urals and Siberia. Some kids believe that decisions on introducing these closures are made not by live people, but by artificial intelligence,» wrote Mizulina.
«In Kurtamysh, the frost hit -31 degrees Celsius (-24°F), somewhere -35°C (-31°F), and children are forced to travel to schools in such icy cold,» according to the appeal to the head of the Internet League.
Students of the Kurgan Oblast College of Culture also wrote to Yekaterina Mizulina. The appeal states that the students of the institution are underage children.
«We have to travel to the college and back in conditions that directly threaten health,» the text notes.
In Kurgan, on January 26, it was -27 degrees Celsius (-17°F), while in other districts it could indeed be colder. The Department of Education and Science of Kurgan Oblast explained to a 45.RU correspondent that districts should have established standards, and municipalities need to cancel classes based on the temperature regime and weather conditions, not rely on Kurgan.
