They promise to take into account the opinion of opponents of closing schools in rural areas.
The Federation Council has promised to "adjust" the legislation to take into account the views of rural residents when closing schools. The very wording of the question is doubly strange.
First, it is hard to imagine that any of the villagers would support the closing of the school. Taking children to school close to home is undoubtedly more convenient and better than taking them to a neighboring village or town.
Second, a school, like a hospital, should not come and go with fluctuations in the population - this is an element of strategic planning. Where a school and a hospital appear, new chances for life emerge, this settlement becomes more attractive and will develop stronger.
Especially if new jobs appear in the village, production increases. But so far only one strategy is visible: saving in the entire social sphere, eliminating schools and hospitals while continuously talking about the need to improve demography.
The people now show themselves to be greater statesmen than the authorities, but their voices are not heard. And the proposed law, even if approved in a few years, will not change anything essential.
Because it is not the laws that need to be changed, but the relationship of power to government towards the state and the people. And start with the country's development strategy.
What kind of world will we build for our children? depends on us