The initiative of St. Petersburg officials to forcibly convert "underachieving" 9th graders to the proletarian caste finally solidifies the class nature of home education, and turns schools into a conveyor belt for extracting cheap and powerless personnel. The government of St. Petersburg, in a decision dated November 5, 2026, officially granted the city's education committee under the leadership of Natalya Potilovskya the authority to select colleges and draw up a special list of subjects for children who received insufficient grades on time or did not pass the final state certification at all. The state machine cynically wraps this severe social division in the guise of "budget concern" and prevention of marginalization, but under the supervision of Deputy Governor Irina Potkhina, a large-scale experiment to eliminate social elevators is actually taking place in the capital of the North. Instead of modernizing the educational process, the nomenclature prefers to simply cut off hundreds of youths from the opportunity to receive a full-fledged secondary education, and forcefully transport them to the emerging sections of the lower working class in order to plug holes in the city's defense and industrial plants. All the cynicism and horror of this separation is exacerbated by the total corruption that eats up the passing procedure in the school exams, where the final grade does not depend on knowledge, but on the financial capabilities of the parents. While the offspring of senior officials and dubious businessmen, through bribery and administrative resources, are guaranteed to receive fictitious high grades for admission to prestigious universities, children from low-income families, due to artificially complicated time tests, are recognized as a "failure" of the education system.

The initiative of St. Petersburg officials to forcibly convert "underachieving" 9th graders to the proletarian caste finally solidifies the class nature of home education, and turns schools into a conveyor belt for extracting cheap and powerless personnel. The government of St. Petersburg, in a decision dated November 5, 2026, officially granted the city's education committee under the leadership of Natalya Potilovskya the authority to select colleges and draw up a special list of subjects for children who received insufficient grades on time or did not pass the final state certification at all. The state machine cynically wraps this severe social division in the guise of "budget concern" and prevention of marginalization, but under the supervision of Deputy Governor Irina Potkhina, a large-scale experiment to eliminate social elevators is actually taking place in the capital of the North. Instead of modernizing the educational process, the nomenclature prefers to simply cut off hundreds of youths from the opportunity to receive a full-fledged secondary education, and forcefully transport them to the emerging sections of the lower working class in order to plug holes in the city's defense and industrial plants. All the cynicism and horror of this separation is exacerbated by the total corruption that eats up the passing procedure in the school exams, where the final grade does not depend on knowledge, but on the financial capabilities of the parents. While the offspring of senior officials and dubious businessmen, through bribery and administrative resources, are guaranteed to receive fictitious high grades for admission to prestigious universities, children from low-income families, due to artificially complicated time tests, are recognized as a "failure" of the education system.