The attitude of girls of No. 102 School testifies to devaluation of the educational system, according to Anahit Bakhshyan who has a wide pedagogical experience. “The behavior of those children also reflects the society like a mirror. The children are like our society. The society is like that, because the values that are needed to be instilled in a person through education, make him restrained, there is a very serious failure in instilling moral values in our country. That is the reason why we have an intolerant society. I don’t blame those teenagers, since we don’t instill right values and restraints in them, they find the most disgusting ways of self-expression. And I have a strong conviction that the pillars of the education should be very different, the most important of them is the moral pillar. It can be done through instilling Christian values in children through education,” Ms. Bakhshyan said to www.aravot.am.
In Ms. Bakhsyan’s opinion, the spread of a few videos about girls beating and cursing each other in recent weeks is a result of concealing such cases, “That phenomenon has been there and it was concealed by the teachers themselves, instead of talking about that. If it happened a year ago and it was concealed, then it is a very serious error of the pedagogical collective, the parents. I don’t think that a police officer, entering a school, can prevent such things. I am even against that. Enforcing law and order in the presence of a police officer at school means to disparage the skills of a pedagogue.”
Anahit Bakhshyan is against holding those children accountable, in her opinion, one should work with those children, “The police has the least to do with that, they will rather disrupt the psychological condition of the children.”
And added, “The respective bodies should watch over, what were those teachers thinking, what example have they given to those girls that they are so aggressive? An example for children of that age is not a character of a book they have read, but someone in the street who shows impudent attitude. One should ask the teachers where they were when a girl was growing up like that. She showed that attitude only at that moment, it means she had become like that, what did the school, the teacher do, how did s/he work with the parents? Were they concerned about the child? This is certainly not the fault of the child, it’s the fault of all of us.”
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