Liquidation of kindergarten №70, which was damaged by shelling: «It is impractical to keep»

Deputies of the Mykolaiv City Council are offered to liquidate kindergarten №70 in the center of the city, which was damaged by Russian shelling.

The corresponding project of the decision is published on the website of the city council, writes NikVesti. At the same time, they plan to create a commission that will deal with the liquidation of the preschool educational institution.

Anatolii Petrov, deputy mayor for education, in a comment to NikVesti noted that it is impractical to maintain kindergarten №70 in the future due to its small number of pupils.

«Kindergarten №70 is a very old and small preschool, with only two groups. It is simply impractical to keep it. There is no bomb shelter there, we will not open it anyway. This is an old, pre-war building. Now the windows and roof are damaged there,» he said.

It will be recalled that the deputies of the city council are also offered to liquidate gymnasium №49 in the Ship district of Mykolaiv. In the summer of 2022, a rocket hit the building of the educational institution.

What about children's education in Mykolaiv?

Mykolaiv schoolchildren have been studying online since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Although the government, with the help of donors and the state, is actively setting up shelters in educational institutions, which sometimes causes indignation among the townspeople.

The refusal of children to go to school is a guarantee of their personal safety, because Mykolaiv is still in the zone of possible ballistic damage from the Russian military, says Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych. At the same time, he emphasizes the importance of preparing shelters and resuming education in schools when the Armed Forces move the front line.

Currently, shelters have been installed in 37 educational institutions out of 142 schools and kindergartens in Mykolaiv. At the end of December 2023, the commission recommended the opening of seven more educational institutions with shelters.

In the next few years, the authorities plan to equip 54 shelters in kindergartens, schools and lyceums in Mykolaiv.

We will remind, this year the outflow of students was recorded in the schools of Mykolaiv. Compared to the last academic year , the number of schoolchildren decreased by 3,300. Vitalii Kim, the head of Mykolaiv RMA, explained that the city's schools work online because they are still targets for the Russian army. Vitalii Kim also explained that the decision on the offline operation of the city's schools will be made by the Office of the President and the Ministry of Education.

Where in Mykolaiv Oblast is there offline education?

57 educational institutions were allowed to work offline in the Mykolaiv region. Most of them are schools of Voznesensk and Pervomaisk districts. In addition, 94 schools work mixed, that is, children study offline in a certain order, for example, one week after another. Another 277 educational institutions work online.

It was also possible to organize an offline educational process in front-line Ochakiv, which is still in the zone of damage by enemy anti-aircraft missiles. There is a mixed form of education.

According to the monitoring of the Department of Education of the Mykolaiv City Council, 65% of schoolchildren want to study full-time.