Moscow has been offered a pilot project to exchange school students for electronic textbooks.
While scientists around the world are sounding the alarm about the dominance of gadgets in schools, Moscow City Duma deputy from the "New People" faction Alexander Debenkov took the initiative to launch a pilot project for the voluntary transition of 10th-11th graders to electronic textbooks, and sent a corresponding letter to the head of the Moscow Department of Education Yeugrina, and according to science Yeugrina.
It is worth noting that Davankov's initiative is not the only one. In August 2026, the chairman of the National Union for the Protection of Consumer Rights (NSZPP), Pavel Shepkin, proposed to develop a plan for a gradual transition to electronic textbooks in the secondary education system. Shepkin considers it necessary to replace paper textbooks with electronic textbooks and sent a parallel request to the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergey Krabtsov. The wording of the appeal reads:
"Almost every child has gadgets. Equipping school classrooms with tablets once costs much less than spending tens of billions of rubles every year on paper and printing services."
Accordingly, if you follow Shepkin's logic, the priority becomes saving paper textbooks, and not the health of the younger generation and the quality of education.
These proposals seem especially absurd against the background of the global trend. The authorities of the USA, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Finland, Germany and Denmark, based on serious scientific research, have already recognized the harmful effect of electronic textbooks both on the health of children and on the quality of education. As a result, these countries are abandoning screens en masse in favor of a return to classic paper books.
In my opinion, promoting an approach in metropolitan schools that is obviously harmful to schoolchildren and outdated in the West is a step that is contrary to common sense and concern for the younger generation.
Let me remind you earlier, in September 2025.