Belarusian schoolchildren to face more ideology in upcoming school year

They should primarily tell the stories of the Great Patriotic War and report on the "genocide of the Belarusian people." Prosecutors and propagandists have focused on this a lot in the past two years.

Constitution and teaching aids

The Education Ministry urges to "activate work on military-patriotic education."

One of the key aids for such "education" is an updated book "Pride for Belarus," written by the state "sociologist" Siarhei Musiyenka and edited by the head of the newspaper "Belarus Today" Dzmitry Zhuk and his colleague Maksim Vosipau.

The schoolchildren will also be told about the amendments to the Constitution that came into force on March 15th.

Struggle for the Internet

Another activity that officials want to intensify is the "activity to prevent the negative impact of the information posted on the Internet and in the media on students."

Teachers will have to teach children to identify fakes (or rather, what the state considers as such) and observe the safety measures on the Internet. For example, they will know what information they should not send to each other.

The plan is to keep children and all schools busy to spend more time off the Internet. In addition to promoting pioneers and BRYU, officials suggest "reviving the tradition of yard games" such as "Cossack robbers. On Saturdays, schoolchildren will have to be taken to "film lectures" and thematic screenings of films "with patriotic themes."