In conservative Russia, liberal teachers are shown the door

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SAINT PETERSBURG - Biology teacher Olga Shchegoleva had not even finished her first six months at a prestigious school in Saint Petersburg when she came under pressure to quit over a sex education bl

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Even though she writes for adults, several concerned parents complained to the school, which is part of the respected Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Russia's former imperial capital."There is this belief that teachers have no life or hobbies outside of work, and that there are some ethical standards - not officially spelled out anywhere - that teachers are expected to follow," she told AFP.

In one prominent case, a teacher from the Siberian city of Omsk - who also worked as a plus-size model - was pressured to quit in 2018 after pin-up-style pictures featuring her appeared online. Amid raging tensions with the world's top democracies, he has sought to present Russia as the antithesis of Western liberal values.

He made no secret of his disapproval of the aggressive promotion of Orthodox religious education at schools and militarisation of society.

 

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