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[KavkazUzel] Representatives of public organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria announced a shortage of textbooks for native languages in schools of the republic. It was decided to change the old-style textbooks in native languages to new ones, they have already been approved, and the new textbooks for grades 1-4 have even been printed, but it will take more time to print copies for other classes and deliver them to schools, explained the director of the publishing house "Elbrus."
The message about the shortage of native language textbooks in the schools of Kabardino-Balkaria was received by the sms-service of the "Caucasian Knot" on September 28.
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"Activists from the CBD September 27 addressed to the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic Kokov KV. The appeal says that there was a catastrophic situation with the children enrolled in schools of textbooks and manuals on native (Kabardino-Circassian) language in the republic", wrote the author of the message. The activists also demanded that the head of the region take measures to correct the current situation with textbooks, the author of the message said.
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Representatives of public organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria complained about the lack of textbooks in the republic's schools in their native Kabardino-Circassian language in letters to the Minister of Education of Russia, Sergei Kravtsov, and the head of Kabardino-Balkaria Kazbek Kokov.
In the schools of Kabardino-Balkaria, there are no textbooks of either a new type - for grades 1-4, nor an old one for grades 5-11, a particularly acute shortage of textbooks occurs in grades 7, where there are several old textbooks for one class, the activists said in a letter to the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, dated October 11.
There is no such situation in any other academic subject.
"At the same time, it does not follow from the reports of the official media that these problems were raised both at the August meetings preceding the beginning of the academic year, and at the meeting of the head of the KBR with school principals, which took place in September 2021," the authors of the letter said.
The letters were published on the website of the Kabardino-Balkarian Regional Human Rights Center, and were also sent to the addressees. They were signed by public figures Zhantemir Gubachikov, Muaed Chechenov and the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center Valery Khatazhukov.
The common name of a single people, divided into Kabardians, Circassians, Adyghes - Adygs (or Circassians). The Adyghe language has two literary dialects - Adyghe and Kabardino-Circassian, which are part of the Abkhaz-Adyg group of the North Caucasian family of languages.
The writing of the Circassians was based on the common Circassian alphabet based on the Arabic script. In 1925, writing Adygs was translated into Latin graphical basis, and in 1937-1938 was designed alphabet based on Cyrillic, stated in the certificate "Circassians" in the "Directory" to "Caucasian Knot".
Zaur Zhemukhov, chairman of the Zhylebze public organization, addressed the head of Kabardino-Balkaria with the same problem .
"Once again, the republic's public is witnessing a disdain for the most valuable and fragile part of our culture - our native language, which has the status of the state language," he said in a letter also published on October 11 on the website of the Kabardino-Balkarian Regional Human Rights Center.
"This was preceded by the destruction of the system of methodological support of the Circassian and Balkarian languages, training and retraining of personnel, insufficiently effective and sometimes destructive work of our federal representatives. With their participation, over the past years, the status of our languages and their capabilities in the educational field of the Russian Federation have significantly decreased. And now we are reaping the bitter fruits of this practice - the number of refusals to study native languages is growing. This threatens their speedy extinction, "Zhemukhov said in a letter.
Zaur Zhemukhov proposed to create structures responsible for the state of the title languages and develop programs to improve them.
"It could be a commission with the participation of ministers, parliamentarians and language activists," he said.
Zhemukhov referred to the experience of North Ossetia, where a multilingual education project is being implemented on the basis of 16 schools and 48 kindergartens.
"We very much hope that you will take immediate measures and create a working body to resolve this acute situation," he said.
The "Elbrus" publishing house informed the "Caucasian Knot " correspondent that the problem arose due to the fact that it was decided to change the old-style textbooks in native languages for new ones.
"The publishing house completed its part of the work on time. The textbooks were sent for approval to the Ministry of Education of Russia, from where they were sent to the Institute for National Education Problems for review. The textbooks were approved, but it will take more time to print copies and bring them to schools," said the director of the publishing house Ruslan Atskanov.
Atskanov noted that new textbooks for grades 1-4 are already ready, that they were printed in a printing house in Grozny. The textbooks will be given to children free of charge, but even the transfer process presents a certain problem, since this requires permission from the district administrations.
"Nobody is specifically hindering us, on the contrary, they help us, but, unfortunately, this is not a quick process," said the director of the publishing house.
A teacher of the Kabardian language of one of the schools in Nalchik confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there are really not enough textbooks. According to her, teachers have developed programs based on old textbooks. If new textbooks are published, all programs will have to be redone, which is also very difficult, she said.
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