Early in the fourth lesson, when all students in a fifth grade stood up to greet the teacher of Ukrainian language, one boy lost consciousness. Neither the nurse nor the crew of the ambulance to bring a guy in a sense failed. Certified death.
This happened in early October in a regular school district center in Odessa region. The police Department who undertook to investigate the matter, only shrugged: health student complained, was raised in a prosperous family. Was an excellent student and class representative.
What was the cause of the tragedy? The answer may, in the study, which are invisible to the media was published in a special publication for scientists "Humanitarian Bulletin". Now it was transferred to the Ministry of education.
No public no reaction. Although the scientists ' conclusion deserves a serious analysis. They argue: elementary school overload lessons and this undermines their already poor health.
As the school may harm
The authors of the study - doctor of medical Sciences Hope Polka and PhD Svetlana Gozak. They are the employees of the Institute of hygiene and medical ecology named Marzeev. To investigate the health of their work. To learn how the lessons and homework assignments affect the health of students, scientists anonymously surveyed 3,000 students and 2254 parents. The main conclusion: after the fourth lesson 54% of students experiencing fatigue and stress. And there is still at least one lesson. Plus homework.
"While studying in primary school proportion of children with chronic diseases increases from 30% to 50%," say the doctors. (This is a terrible figures, meaning that in the first class of chronic diseases comes third of children. And when going into the fifth such already half). "Excess of normal weight, from 15% to 26, 5%. Curvature of the spine - from 50% to 85%. The wrong response of the heart and blood vessels of physical activity with 22, 5% to 46, 9%".
Part of the problem is the poor condition of the schools. Not less than 15% of them need to be repaired, 75% of the chairs and desks are not suitable for schoolchildren, 10% urban and 40% rural schools there are no gyms.
But the decision is not about money. The researchers found in relatively safe schools health students is even worse. There are more chronic diseases, 1, 4 times more likely to detect eye disease and 1, 8 times of the musculoskeletal system.
The main problem is too many lessons and assignments. According to the study, half of the students in the classroom is experiencing headaches. Parents complain: with lessons and homework in General, children learn by 10-12 hours a day. This is two times more than allowed doctors.
"We have a nephew first-grader, comes from the school of "squeezed like a lemon, it 7 will be in December. He gets very tired! " - complains of the parent forum from Kiev Anna. "Of course tired, because the program is strong in schools, the load is large, and children-six-year-olds usually not physically ready for such loads... " - meet her by the nick Point from Kiev.
"... Today there is a tendency to exceeding the maximum permissible load on students. She finds the consolidation and regulatory framework. So, as approved by CMU resolution No. 462 from 20.04.11, the Standard of primary education of the maximum allowable course load for children grades 1-4 exceeds the medical requirements for 3 hours in a week," according to the researchers.
What makes MEYS
Last year Swov" investigated the death of schoolchildren in physical education classes. Their number has increased in the last few years. Then we found out that the main reason that the health of children every year weakens due to her interest in computer games and a sedentary lifestyle. In addition, many teachers did not fulfill the requirements of the Ministry to divide classes into groups according to their level of health. Immediately after that, the Ministry of education has changed the rules of gym lessons. It increased their number, but actually removed the regulations.
Other lessons all differently - load increased. This school year by decision of the Ministry of education in primary school has increased the number of lessons in languages and literature, mathematics and technology. Added a subject - science. Previously, he began to teach in middle school.
"The main steps in the reform of primary education was the introduction of the new standard of information and communication technologies and the increasing knowledge of foreign languages," said education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk.
The total number of lessons in the first four grades increased by as much as 10 per week is from 90 to 100.
We asked the Ministry of education, why they did not take into account the research about overloading the students. Traditionally we got no reply.
What should parents do? Doctors do not get tired to repeat - to send their children to clubs, play sports. Football, basketball, volleyball, tennis or gymnastics - no matter, the main thing is that the child often moved. Otherwise you after the Ministry of education will prepare their children for the Ministry of health.
Maxim Opanasenko.
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