The village school

Villages Ilinskoe and Pokrovo are next to each other, with a difference of a kilometer and a half.

They are on the edge of the Velikiy Ustyug District, Vologda Region.

In the village of Pokrovo there is nothing left, except for the abandoned church and about a dozen inhabitants.

In Ilinsky, on the contrary, life is weak, but still boils. There is even a school where they teach from 1 to 9 grade. It's just that we'll visit.

In fact, this is an ordinary rural school.

Where there is an ordinary gym.

Where behind the ordinary desks are children.

Where wonderful teachers work, they still teach real, and not like in modern schools.

Where are the usual paper diaries, notebooks and textbooks.

Where there are no interactive boards - here they write chalk.

There is an interesting museum of antiquity.

Children have a normal school life.

An ordinary rural health center.

The usual rural dining room, with a delicious borsh. Vegetables are grown in the school garden. Everything is natural! The cost of lunch is just ridiculous - first, second, third with a bun, and we ate from the belly for 50 rubles!

School tractor for household needs.

Local cat at last.

Having visited a rural school, I understood why the village is dying. It is dying because of our children. It is clear that the state and the education system are to blame - the constant tightening of standards, the requirements for the maintenance of schools. Therefore, schools are closed. As soon as the school or kindergarten was closed in the village, we can assume that the beginning of the breakdown of the village was made.
Only in rural schools and kindergartens is the village kept and as long as they exist - the village will live!