MeMyselfAndI
Nov 9th 2011, 09:12 PM
09.11.2011 | 20:36
Parents teach children life through farmwork
A couple in Yaroslavl oblast decided to raise their children away from civilisation in their deserted ancestral village, without schools or hospitals. Authorities have questions, but no cause or right to intervene.
Today Mikhail Shaidenko and Yulia Danilovskaya, who have settled with their four children in village Lageika in Yaroslavl oblast, prepare for another day in court, where they are defending their right to live with their children away from civilisation: teach them at home, do not take them to a policlinic and spend long evenings playing piano, knitting and reading.
The authorities, threatening to take away their parental rights, demand they send their children to school or, at least, teach them in accordance with accepted standards. The family maintains, taht such an approach kills the natural path toward knowledge. NTV correspondent Garri Knyagnitsky tried to investigate the issue.
In all of 16 years, Vasilisa finished two classes of school. Her brothers, 13-year old Boris, 10-year old Vladimir and 7-year old Timofei, never went to school at all. Children learn science and life on their parents' farm. The head of the family Mikhail Shaidenko explains parallel lines with the example of his vegetable patches. Other subjects are learned from books.
Yulia Danilovskaya: «We do not use textbooks. We use different books. Now we are reading Pushkin».
Yulia herself finished a special school with a focus on English language and music. She says, the children get enough knowledge, from what she can teach them.
In 2007 Mikhail and Yulia found a house in the village Lageika, 100 km out of Yaroslavl. Here, you can only drive on a tractor. There is no electricity, the family lives off nature. They eat what they grow on their farm. The authorities have wondered how comfortable such a life is for their children.
Irina Pokrovskaya, head of education department for Danilovsky region: «The Prosecutor and the Child Protection Service agreed, that a court action must be launched to terminate parental rights».
But the only cause for that can be a immideate threat to life or health of the children. which would be hard to establish as the parents, for all their eccentricity, do not drink and treat the children well, at least where our cameras could see.
Svetlana Pronina, People's Chamber of the Russian Federation: «It was not so quickly decided to strip them of their parental rights. We already have an enormous number: 70,000 children are seized from their parents every year for different causes. The system is swamped».
This is not the first time a family flees civilisation. In 2004 billionair German Sterligov moved to a village near Mozhaisk. He and his family live there still, but even he brought in teachers from Moscow for his five children. Though, Sterligov now says, his commune is ready to shelter the Shaidenko-Danilovsky family.
German Sterligov: «If the government tries to take their children, and they cannot protect them alone, they are welcome here, we do not give out anyone. We won't hand off our own children or theirs».
The authorities seem now to be backing down, saying they never wanted to take the children, but merely to get inside the house.
Irina Pokrovskaya: «When we saw, that the children were clean, healthy and happy, we of course abandoned the parental rights action right away».
The court still decided Yulia Danilovskaya must sign a contract with a school it determined, so teachers from there can check on and control the children's education. Danilovskaya disagrees and is determined to appeal this. The conflict is not yet over.
http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/244480/print/
The family
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7315/kuznecova007.jpg
Last thing they want is for German Sterligov to get involved
http://finansmag.ru/FckFiles/image/300/16-20/16-vh-b.jpg
lol He is Old Orthodox like me, though not by birth, but conversion; and I suppose he has adapted elements of Cossack culture as well, like that shashka saber that carries around all the time and sometimes threatens liberal politicians, atheists, and abortionists with on TV.
But, he is not a bluffer. He says he can protect them, and he can. His settlement, which was just his family at first, now includes about a dozen large traditionalist clans. They are all armed to the teeth
http://www.fresher.ru/images8/v-gostyax-u-germana-sterligova/20.jpghttp://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4305/yes06.132/0_2c622_542fda57_orighttp://ljplus.ru/img4/i/l/ilfordhp5/_MG_0937.jpg
Sterligov is, in his own words, building a "new Russian civilisation". He collects families like these. And the government does not mess with him. Not just because of the weapons, but because as a rich man, he's had the resources to also compound large dossiers of compromising information on all the powerholders in Russia, possibly even Putin himself. No, last thing the authorities want, is to bring in Mr. Sterligov :lol:
As for the original question, I think the parents should have the right to raise their children however they want, as long as they do not damage them in the process.
Parents teach children life through farmwork
A couple in Yaroslavl oblast decided to raise their children away from civilisation in their deserted ancestral village, without schools or hospitals. Authorities have questions, but no cause or right to intervene.
Today Mikhail Shaidenko and Yulia Danilovskaya, who have settled with their four children in village Lageika in Yaroslavl oblast, prepare for another day in court, where they are defending their right to live with their children away from civilisation: teach them at home, do not take them to a policlinic and spend long evenings playing piano, knitting and reading.
The authorities, threatening to take away their parental rights, demand they send their children to school or, at least, teach them in accordance with accepted standards. The family maintains, taht such an approach kills the natural path toward knowledge. NTV correspondent Garri Knyagnitsky tried to investigate the issue.
In all of 16 years, Vasilisa finished two classes of school. Her brothers, 13-year old Boris, 10-year old Vladimir and 7-year old Timofei, never went to school at all. Children learn science and life on their parents' farm. The head of the family Mikhail Shaidenko explains parallel lines with the example of his vegetable patches. Other subjects are learned from books.
Yulia Danilovskaya: «We do not use textbooks. We use different books. Now we are reading Pushkin».
Yulia herself finished a special school with a focus on English language and music. She says, the children get enough knowledge, from what she can teach them.
In 2007 Mikhail and Yulia found a house in the village Lageika, 100 km out of Yaroslavl. Here, you can only drive on a tractor. There is no electricity, the family lives off nature. They eat what they grow on their farm. The authorities have wondered how comfortable such a life is for their children.
Irina Pokrovskaya, head of education department for Danilovsky region: «The Prosecutor and the Child Protection Service agreed, that a court action must be launched to terminate parental rights».
But the only cause for that can be a immideate threat to life or health of the children. which would be hard to establish as the parents, for all their eccentricity, do not drink and treat the children well, at least where our cameras could see.
Svetlana Pronina, People's Chamber of the Russian Federation: «It was not so quickly decided to strip them of their parental rights. We already have an enormous number: 70,000 children are seized from their parents every year for different causes. The system is swamped».
This is not the first time a family flees civilisation. In 2004 billionair German Sterligov moved to a village near Mozhaisk. He and his family live there still, but even he brought in teachers from Moscow for his five children. Though, Sterligov now says, his commune is ready to shelter the Shaidenko-Danilovsky family.
German Sterligov: «If the government tries to take their children, and they cannot protect them alone, they are welcome here, we do not give out anyone. We won't hand off our own children or theirs».
The authorities seem now to be backing down, saying they never wanted to take the children, but merely to get inside the house.
Irina Pokrovskaya: «When we saw, that the children were clean, healthy and happy, we of course abandoned the parental rights action right away».
The court still decided Yulia Danilovskaya must sign a contract with a school it determined, so teachers from there can check on and control the children's education. Danilovskaya disagrees and is determined to appeal this. The conflict is not yet over.
http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/244480/print/
The family
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7315/kuznecova007.jpg
Last thing they want is for German Sterligov to get involved
http://finansmag.ru/FckFiles/image/300/16-20/16-vh-b.jpg
lol He is Old Orthodox like me, though not by birth, but conversion; and I suppose he has adapted elements of Cossack culture as well, like that shashka saber that carries around all the time and sometimes threatens liberal politicians, atheists, and abortionists with on TV.
But, he is not a bluffer. He says he can protect them, and he can. His settlement, which was just his family at first, now includes about a dozen large traditionalist clans. They are all armed to the teeth
http://www.fresher.ru/images8/v-gostyax-u-germana-sterligova/20.jpghttp://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4305/yes06.132/0_2c622_542fda57_orighttp://ljplus.ru/img4/i/l/ilfordhp5/_MG_0937.jpg
Sterligov is, in his own words, building a "new Russian civilisation". He collects families like these. And the government does not mess with him. Not just because of the weapons, but because as a rich man, he's had the resources to also compound large dossiers of compromising information on all the powerholders in Russia, possibly even Putin himself. No, last thing the authorities want, is to bring in Mr. Sterligov :lol:
As for the original question, I think the parents should have the right to raise their children however they want, as long as they do not damage them in the process.