Tomsk Region Education Department explained the ban on foreign-language writing on schoolchildren's clothes by saying that “immature minds” may encounter “alien and dangerous meanings”

Tomsk Region Education Department explained the ban on foreign-language writing on schoolchildren's clothes by saying that “immature minds” may encounter “alien and dangerous meanings”

The outlet vtomske requested comment from the regional Education Department about the fact that at least two schools in the region had banned children from wearing clothes with foreign words.

The agency's reply says that under the guise of fashion, teenagers may be exposed to “alien and dangerous meanings” and, because of not knowing the language, neither parents nor children can verify their content:

Today, serious informational pressure is being exerted on the immature minds of children and teenagers. Under the guise of fashion, a joke, or a harmless phrase, a child may be fed alien and dangerous meanings. Yielding to such influence, without even realizing it, they may put on an item with an extremist print or a destructive slogan.

The most alarming thing here is that this most often happens not out of malicious intent, but out of ignorance. A child may not know a foreign language, may not understand hidden subtext, may not recognize an ambiguous phrase or symbolism. Parents, when buying a bright item on a marketplace or in a store, also do not always have the opportunity to accurately check the translation and the true meaning of the printed inscription.

Because of such an apparently absurd accident, a child may end up in a situation whose consequences can seriously affect their fate.

The Education Department, of course, could not stay on the sidelines. As part of systematic work to prevent the spread of radicalization risks among children and young people, a set of measures was developed aimed at drawing the attention of educational organizations, parents, and the public to these hidden threats.

At the same time, the department did not answer the outlet's question as to whether the measures specified in the schools' orders are mandatory or not (they have now been removed from the websites). In addition, the agency declined to provide a list of educational institutions where such bans have already been introduced locally.

The agency separately emphasized that the officials “are not against foreign languages — we are against radicalism, extremism, and destructive meanings.”

🔹On May 20, it became known that at School No. 1 in the town of Kedrovy and at the Governor's Svetlensky Lyceum, schoolchildren were banned from wearing clothes with foreign words as an amendment to the internal regulations.

The orders, already removed from the websites, said that the measure was needed because “for the purpose of countering the propaganda of unlawful behavior, radicalization, and antisocial ideas, it is prohibited to wear clothing with inscriptions in foreign

languages.”

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