Tomorrow, September 1, most schools will start the new school year.. According to the rules established by the Ministry of Education and Science, parents will be able to choose the form of education for children. However, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and in the war zone, teachers and children are left with almost no instructions on the educational process, human rights activists of the ZMINA Human Rights Center say..

Human rights activists note that the authorities advise students to study at home on the All-Ukrainian School Online platform.

The head of the Almenda Center for Civic Education, Valentina Potapova, said that 885 schools are now occupied in the south alone.. “So far, due to Russian shelling, out of almost 15,000 Ukrainian educational institutions, 2,328 have been damaged, and 289 have been completely destroyed,” Potapova stressed..

Russian troops seize Ukrainian textbooks and introduce Russian curriculum. In the occupied territories, there is often no access to the Internet and power supply for training. This makes it difficult for children to study remotely..

Educational Ombudsman of Ukraine Serhiy Gorbachev said that teachers and students who study in the occupied territories under the Ukrainian program are risking their lives.

“It must be remembered that the right to life and health are key. Education will now suffer very heavy losses, but it can be made up for if children and teachers are alive and well,” the Ombudsman stressed..

So far, there is no public strategy in Ukraine on how to preserve Ukrainian education in the occupied territories and protect students and teachers. According to Gorbachev, in the coming days, the Ministry of Education and Science should present an algorithm of actions for all participants in the educational process under occupation.

A teacher who managed to leave the occupied Berdyansk, Larisa Kolomiets, said that the occupiers are trying to convince parents with money to send their children to occupied schools.

“Most of our students and almost half of the teachers remained in the occupied city. Our school opens online learning, classes are filled, and we will even work in this mode. Children in the occupation will study with us, although parents have great fear,” the teacher emphasized..

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War is a time of limitation, upheaval and fear. But we, being in the non-occupied territories, cannot even imagine how our compatriots live on the other side of the front line. We cannot appreciate the luxury of freedom. The luxury of not being afraid that at any moment you can be arrested, killed, humiliated, taken away in an unknown direction.

How teachers live in the occupied cities and towns, read in the article by Oksana Onishchenko " U.A..