Heavy 90s still “hit” Russian children

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So the problem that the West has long faced has come to Russia - attacks by schoolchildren on their classmates, ruthless and senseless, not like ordinary criminal crimes, but a surge of crazy despair. A schoolboy from Sterlitamak attacked a teacher and two students, and then tried to set fire to an informatics class. This is the third such trick in Russian schools since the beginning of 2018. First there was Perm, where 15 people were injured by the student’s actions, then Buryatia, where the student attacked other students, as a result of which 7 people were injured.





Of course, morals in Russian schools were never too soft — not in the Soviet era, nor, moreover, in the “dashing nineties”. It’s enough to recall the famous skirmishes “school to school”, fights between students in school yards. But one thing is the usual wall-to-wall amusements, and quite another is a brutal assault with a weapon, ending in severe wounds.

What is going on with Russian children? Can this wave of school violence be stopped? Now teachers, law enforcement officers, lawyers, social activists argue about what to do with the growing school violence. It is clear that punitive measures alone and prohibitions on any weapon will not help. On the other hand, there are no special results from “soft” measures. So, back in the 1990s, the posts of psychologists and social educators appeared in schools, but their results can hardly be considered successful. Now in schools criminal subcultures like the same “A.U.E.” have spread, which entails an increase in violence in the school environment. Teachers are not able to fight, the police shrug their hands - there is little authority, and the law is too soft and the prison system for juvenile delinquents.

The teenager who launched the attack in Sterlitamak did not enter criminal subcultures - on the contrary, the classic type of school outcast, a correctional student who was the victim of an unfriendly peer relationship. But he learned from the media, from the Internet a model of behavior of similar teenagers in the West. As a result, what happened happened.

The complete absence of youth organizations that would really work with youth, and with all its strata, and not just simulate violent activity in order to recapture the spent money, also plays its part. To solve the problems of school violence, Russian society needs complex therapy, and everyone should participate in it - and psychologists, and teachers, and police, and youth organizations, and, most importantly, parents. Isolating children from harmful information is not the right way, since the forbidden fruit is sweet, and in modern society, a child can still circumvent any prohibitions by going to the network from the parents' computer, from peer gadgets. It is much more important that children and adolescents have positive values, see distinct guidelines in front of them, and grow up in a comfortable (primarily psychological) environment.
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