Kaloyan Metodiev: More than 50 languages were spoken at my children's school in London

More than 50 languages were spoken at my children's school in London. A sea of races, religions, ethnicities, social classes, statuses. A municipal school up to grade 7. While I was taking them to school in the morning, the actor Hugh Grant, who could buy several private schools, a Pakistani with many children from social housing, Spanish bankers from the city, Russian scientists, Japanese engineers, French activists, Greek migrants, Australians, a servant of the Queen, Nigerians, Turks, even 2-3 Bulgarians from mixed marriages, etc. All of this functioned like clockwork. With a guiding principle: discipline and equality. I helped out on the school board for two years to understand how the system works.

The first thing they teach them is to line up. When the principal raised her finger, everyone lined up like soldiers, one behind the other.
The second is manners - to be kind, polite, to smile, to greet, to constantly say "thank you", "excuse me" and "please". To respect the elders.
The third is that everything is simple, clear, childish and related to living life. I haven't given a single pound for anything. This is the positive of their educational model (of course, there are negative things too). At the beginning is upbringing! To be citizens. Part of the empire, the state, the community. To obey the rules. To play more, because they are children. And we constantly went to museums, animal farms, parks, charity events. The connection with nature is a priority. I have been a parent volunteer on several such excursions. At their school, the bobbies (the English police officers that the children trust and love), the municipal councilors, chefs, poets, interesting people from the neighborhood came. They are working to become citizens. To have an attitude towards money, to respect traffic on the roads, to participate in charity events. But the first is: upbringing, upbringing, upbringing.

That's why I've written it hundreds of times, repeated it in interviews, spoken from the parliamentary rostrum, even though I was booed.
In the context of what's happening in our country: children and young people beat up police officers, kill, drive around, crush people with ATVs, form gangs, fly around in expensive limousines, etc., it's clear that disorder, insecurity, disrespect, and juvenile delinquency have flooded our country. And not from poverty, but from pampering.
The social fabric is crumbling. We need a reasonable order! That's why the goal of the new Bulgarian educational system should be with an emphasis on discipline and upbringing, and then on the development of talents. Otherwise, we invest in knowledge, and because of the hooligans, the knowledgeable children will flee abroad.

And here we remain the punching bags of the bad guys. We don't need this model. It is exhausted. The high school graduation exams have created atrocious stress on children and parents, robbed families of their best years, and this additionally results in various psychological problems, one of which is aggression. In this form, the high school graduation exams are exhausted. Upbringing, discipline, simplification of curricula, modernization, more flexibility, ecological culture, more frequent short vacations and development according to qualities and talents. This is how I see one of the steps on the way out of this swamp we find ourselves in.