Who is it good to live for in a Russian school? Students? Teachers? Parents? Nobody??? Why? Because these three sides of an isosceles triangle actually have different goals.
The book describes the same events from each side’s viewpoint: a girl writes a diary, the parents have a dialogue with one another, and the teacher talks at home… with the cat.
The book’s contents are based on real events that occurred in different schools and in different families of one city over the course of a single school year. The author rejected the idea of giving names of thanks to those teachers who shared facts and reflections with her, so as not to anger their superiors. But to her three children—Vladimir, Anna, and Lana, who experienced the ordeal of school very differently—the author openly expresses her gratitude for this invaluable life material. And also to school No. … it doesn’t matter which one—for the brief but ultra-concentrated experience of being inside the roles of teacher and deputy principal for educational work. And we really want to put an end to the kind of school we have across the RU space, and move to a more humane system for all three sides. A system that would allow you to see the whole Person behind the function: in the parent, in the teacher, and in the student.