Children of migrants who have failed the Russian language exam for studying in Russian schools three times should return to their homeland and “wait for their parents at home“.
This opinion was expressed by the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs Yaroslav Nilov at the forum "Russia - the Islamic World in Kazan".
"If they cannot learn, let's limit them. Three times. If it doesn't work out, you go home and wait for your parents at home. Period," Nilov noted.
Earlier, he announced that he had developed a bill that limits the term for taking Russian language tests for migrant children to two years. He recalled that the law prohibiting the enrollment of children of migrants who do not speak Russian came into force on April 1, but the total number of attempts to pass such a test is not limited.
"We see sad statistics when out of a thousand children, only 30 passed the test. Some do not have the right to stay in Russia legally, others failed to fill out the documents, and still others failed the test," Nilov emphasized. According to him, this shows that the State Duma deputies made the right decision by developing and adopting a law on the need to test migrant children.
“If this is not done, this entire group of people unable to study present in our educational institutions will take over the attention of teachers and generally lower the level of education of Russian children“, Nilov noted.
According to him, due to the fact that teachers have devoted most of their time to the educational process to “pull out those who cannot study“, Russian children “cannot pass the Unified State Exam and the Main State Exam“.
The education of migrant children should be paid, and the funds received should be used to pay bonuses to “the exhausted and overworked” teachers, he continued.
According to him, such training can be paid for by the parents, the employer who invites them, the embassy, the country from which the migrant family comes, or charitable foundations.
“Why should Russian citizens with their taxes provide the opportunity and pay for the presence of foreign children in our educational institutions? After all, we have an established system of higher education - there are free quotas, specific quotas are provided for each country. And there is a struggle for them“, Nilov noted.
He emphasized that in this case, students “arrive, study and understand that they are taking someone else's place, they are under some control, including under the control of the embassy, under the control of their country“. “If you want to get an education outside the quotas, please do it for a fee“, Nilov also said.
The deputy noted that he himself studied at the Moscow Energy Institute, where students from Yemen, China, Palestine and other countries also studied. “Some studied for free under quotas, and others for a fee. And they attended Russian language courses, also for a fee. The university received money and thanks to these funds they made repairs, purchased equipment, opened new departments, new laboratories. And they paid bonuses to teachers,”, Nilov noted.