On September 1, 2007, a bill began to work in Russian education that introduced compulsory secondary education . This was due, first of all, to the demographic disasters that befell society at the end of the twentieth century. But the main goal of this reform, nevertheless, is to raise the bar of education of the population to a new, higher level. This requires a life that today is not possible without the possession of elementary skills in the field of information technology.
Russian schools have so far provided education in three levels, including primary, basic and secondary full general education . Only now the last step has taken the form of obligation. Like any reform, this innovation was accepted by some part of the public with hostility, because binding always carries a hint of coercion. Some perceived the new bill as a violation of the rights of the male half of students who, having come to school at the age of 6.5 years, and finish it ready to be drafted into the army. But those who liked the reform were potential lazy people who got the opportunity not to leave the school walls even if they had barely completed 9 classes. The fact is that the bill introduces a ban on leaving students in grades 10-11 for a second course of study. Teachers can now only transfer such students to evening or distance learning.
Let us dwell on the circumstances that forced the Russian Ministry of Education to introduce compulsory secondary education.
As mentioned above, the main reason is the lack of the number of applicants applying for admission to a particular university. Since 1998, the number of school graduates who have received full secondary education , would like to continue their studies at institutes or universities is steadily declining. The forecasts that this trend will be overcome by 2010 did not materialize. In the past, 2010, 30% fewer students came to study in higher educational tasks than in 2006. The authority of universities has been spoiled by the commercialization of higher education. Compulsory secondary general education can correct the situation today. And the whole question in this situation is to explain to the public whether full secondary education is really so important.
Let's look at this problem from the point of view of the state. It is no secret to anyone that in Soviet times the level of education in our country was highly quoted abroad. This is evidenced by the "brain drain" abroad. And today, when the era of information and technological progress has begun, we cannot afford to destroy the strong foundations that were laid in our secondary education. And this, by the way, is one of those few circumstances that were not destroyed during the transitional era and remained the subject of our pride.
Skeptics ask the question, why do we need a secondary education for those who choose working professions. But not everyone should be scientists, they ask and forget that today even floors are washed with household appliances, the production of which uses high technology. And the education received at the school will help workers to have a level of qualification that allows them not to lose their jobs and receive substantially higher wages for their performance. And even those who, after the 9th grade, are going to go to professional schools to get some specialty, life in the future will force them to study.
Isn't it better to do everything in due time than to catch up with the train that left ?! There is no superfluous knowledge, and the optimum time for obtaining it is the age of children, when the inquiring mind of the child is not preoccupied with any other life problems.