Marina Yardaeva Undressing Unified State Exam 08:04

The Unified State Exam has been held for twenty years, and the Unified State Exam for ten years. It seems that the system had to be debugged and turned into a boring routine a long time ago. But there is no such thing. Something happens every year. And every year something absolutely incredible happens. It would seem that there is no wonder: everything happened and it is impossible to imagine anything else. But no, reality blows the nose of even the wildest imagination. Why? Why is even the most incredible game possible?

For example, in one of the schools in Voronezh, several girls were literally robbed during a pre-exam search. They couldn’t pass the metal detector; They called every time they tried. We excluded everything that the device could react to. Later, investigators suggested that underwear might have been an obstacle: wires on bras, buckles, decorations on panties. And then the adults with absolute clarity offered to get rid of the annoying obstacle. In tears, in shock, the girls took off their underwear: Some on the street, some in line.

What’s this? Everyone in the know knows: The metal frames at some exam points can make noise for one in three people. Someone has arranged them this way in a distorted way. Some have jingling belt buckles, some have straps, some have buttons. In such cases, they usually locate the noise source with a hand detector and allow it to pass easily. Yes, of course there is always the risk that some kamikaze may still be carrying smartphones. But try using it again in an office under the supervision of observers.

Toilet? You won’t escape either: the number and time of exits are recorded precisely, and in case of the slightest doubt, all the facts will play against the suspect. In addition to your phone, you can also carry a bunch of ordinary paper crib sheets. No framework will detect them. But the person who violates them may be caught by the organizer in the audience. Everyone understands this, so no one gets angry at first inspection. There are instructions, then there is common sense and humanity. And then it was as if a “stranger” had captured the guards. Some kind of extraterrestrial life form.

But I guess the “stranger” didn’t move, it moved successfully. It is no coincidence that a striptease scandal occurred in Chuvashia after Voronezh. Employees undergo special training for exams every year. The guides are edited every year, with some changes each time. After all, both the Unified State Exam itself and the procedure for conducting it are constantly “improved”, so to speak, taking into account past shortcomings.

Probably a lot of cheating-related violations were revealed last year, so something was adjusted in the instructions and artists were urged to be more careful. Or maybe they threatened with a fine. But no one wants to be punished with a ruble, and in general your own shirt is closer to your body, especially if you do not have to go through the frames.

Of course, humanity cannot be destroyed that easily by any regulation, but if the seed of evil has fallen on the soil prepared by the union, it will not take long for the sprouts to appear.

You know, at first I also thought that what happened in Voronezh and Yalchiki was something really exceptional. Some mutants have infiltrated the teaching ranks. Then I read teacher blogs. I read it and my hair stood on end.

Some of my colleagues write that this is purely media exaggeration, no one violated the rules, no one asked anyone to undress: the schoolgirls took off their bras themselves, in general, these girls themselves are to blame, because they wanted to hack the system, disrupted the exam, trolled the guards, dressed incorrectly (apparently underwear You should have come without underwear), so they scanned you. They write that these schoolchildren are completely arrogant, they do not bother to study the rules and clearly break them on purpose and, as you know, everything happens with impunity and these little children should be sent home immediately. he knew.

You read this and you don’t understand what happens to people. Have you breathed poison? Did you hit your head hard? Have there been irreversible changes in the parts of the brain responsible for empathy? Tell them that they need to be stricter, they hear the command “fas” and rush to justify the high trust of their superiors.

Some are forced to undress, some are deprived of water and food. It was already in Tyumen that they distinguished themselves during the OGE in the ninth grade. They explained that bottles or chocolates could only be brought without labels. Yes, yes, suddenly three hundred pages of the textbook fit into the packaging in small print. In Nizhny Novgorod, children almost died of hunger due to a technical malfunction.

These malfunctions occur every year. Either the materials do not arrive on time or the equipment fails the computer science or English listening exams. Then, as a rule, they postpone the exam date and send the young people home. But then they apparently decided to train teenagers to be more resilient and tortured schoolchildren for several hours. Then they “took pity”, gave the unfortunate people a bun and a jar of baby puree… and offered to pay for the feast for the parents.

When you find out about this, you want to shout: “Everyone, what is your problem? Are you human or functions? Humans or stupid robots? And no, it is not possible to attribute everything to someone’s inventions and provocations. I speak as someone who has observed the system from the inside and studied for the exams. Yes, I was lucky, I did not encounter obvious madness in action, but I did see attempts to unleash it.

Attempts in the form of recommendations to check toilet bins for cheat sheets, attempts to ban teenagers from looking out the window for too long (in case suddenly a helicopter with a screen broadcasting formulas flies overhead), attempts to ban organizers from bringing food (it is good that public education workers have only live spiritual food is a known situation).

But if I, as an adult and harmful person, can always leave the madhouse (can’t I take a sandwich with me? Okay, we go home with a sandwich), then schoolchildren cannot afford such a luxury. Their fate is not determined here, but some lines of the future are still being drawn. But the majority has no right to do anything; They have no experience, no anger, no power. So who will protect them?

With each new scandal, you think the bottom is breaking and you hope that the next crazy event will teach our society something. Moreover, excesses are usually followed by at least a formal apology to the victims and at least a token dismissal. And it seems that the line beyond which it is absolutely impossible to go has to be finally determined. But a year goes by and new things happen. When will this vicious circle open?

The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the position of the editors.