The MP offered to beat the teachers with a whip for communication in Russian

In KSCA believe that teachers set a bad example, communicating in Russian.

For the use of the Russian language in Ukrainian schools, teachers and students need to beat with a whip.

This was stated by the Deputy of the Kiev city Council Igor Miroshnichenko.

“If you go to a regular Ukrainian school, we hear that all speak Russian, including teachers and educators in kindergartens. What you need to whip back? Sometimes you just have to whip, because if in the Ukrainian language school teachers allow themselves to speak Russian language, they show a bad example to children. Of course,” he said.

In Ukraine there are nearly 16.9 million schools, which educate 3.8 million students, with 9.4% of educational institutions teaching is carried out in Russian language.

In public schools the proportion of teaching in the Ukrainian reaches almost 90%, and in Russian – 9,2%. In private schools teaching mainly in Russian (55%), the share of Ukrainian language is 41.1 percent. The absolute leader in the number of Ukrainian-language schools is of the Rivne oblast where 100% of such schools.

Teaching in Ukrainian is mainly carried out in the Eastern regions of the country – Kharkiv, Odessa, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Lugansk regions.In Kiev, the percentage of Russian-speaking schools is 2.7%, Ukrainian-speaking with 97.1%.

According to a survey by the Razumkov Center,a Ukrainian called the mother tongue of 68% of citizens of Ukraine, another 14% believe that Russian language, and 17% – Russian and Ukrainian in equal measure.

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