Seriously, We Need to Empty the North of this Country
A teacher who comes from Pavlodar told me that school there has basically been canceled since January because of the extreme cold. In Kazakhstan, they close school when it gets too cold, not when it gets too snowy–call them frost days instead of snow days, if you like. The idea is that children can get sick from being out in the cold. Now it’s bad enough that students are missing out on school for two whole months. One would think someone could have come up with a solution-especially since this must have happened before. Pavlodar, incidentally, is right on the border with Russia and about as far north as you can go and still be in Kazakhstan.
However the story gets more interesting. See, Pavlodar is not a big town.v So there’s really only one thing for kids to do: go to the outdoor skating rinks. Yes, the local government shuts down school to keep the poor kids from having to go outside and walk to school in the cold. What do the kids do? Spend the whole day outside ice skating!
Shouldn’t the akimat have caught on by now and just sent them to school anyway?
Can any readers from Pavlodar confirm or deny this? Anyone else got any stories like this?
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I’m from Petropavlovsk.
It wouldn’t be so funny, but it is true.
When I was in school, they also practiced the same thing. And being schoolboy, I didn’t seen anything wrong with that.
Although I will agree that now it looks absurdly
I am from Aktobe and I heard from my friend who is living in Pavlodar that this winter they had a temperature dropping to -40. The reason why the children are not allowed to go to schools in such days because it is very cold in the classrooms. The schools do not have good heating systems so when it is -40 outside it is about +18 or so inside the school. Moreover, there is always some one in the class who is ill and still attends the classes. Because of that person many others will get sick too, so parents try to avoid this by keeping their child at home.
I am not worried that children miss 2 months of school cause it happened also with me when I was at school ( about 5 years ago). Eventually you will still go with the program as it was planned at the beginning of the academic year. And I can say for sure no one among my mates ever was worried that they will not have enough time to learn the missed material. However, it is all depends on the teachers at your school.