Skit with beating of a military TCC member: the organizer of the play wrote a letter of resignation
18 February 16:26
The organizer of the school play at Kyiv school No. 309, during which children performed a skit with the beating of a military serviceman of the TCC, has written a letter of resignation.
This was reported on the air of the Kyiv 24 TV channel by the school’s director Olga Tymoshenko, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.
According to her, the organizer of this performance was brought up in a military family and worked in the cadet corps, and at the beginning of the full-scale invasion she “saved the cadets” in Sumy. She also emphasized that this scene was not part of the script.
Tymoshenko also said that she had talked to the teacher who organized the performance and the children about the incident and asked them what the scene meant. According to the principal, the students explained that the beating of the military TCC symbolizes “the end of the war and our victory.”
She also emphasized that “no one absolves themselves of guilt” and apologized to everyone, including those “who are involved,” and called the children’s play with the beating “terrible.”
Details of the incident:
In Kyiv’s school #309, children organized a Valentine’s Day party where they enacted an episode of beating a man in a military uniform with the inscription “TCC” on his jacket.
The Darnytsia District State Administration stated that the district education department had set up a commission to investigate the incident at the school holiday. Juvenile police officers talked to the administration of the educational institution and the children who acted in the skit, the Kyiv police said.
Minister of Education Oksen Lisovyi reacted to the video of the school holiday, calling it “shameful and unacceptable in the third year of the full-scale invasion and the 11th year of the war.”
In a telephone conversation with the school director, he demanded an internal investigation and “collect explanations from everyone who participated” in the skit. Lisovoy also expressed surprise that none of the participants in the performance “felt any resistance.”
