THERE ARE MORE GOOD SCHOOLS THAN BAD, SAY 45% POLLEES IN RUSSIAN OPINION PROBE

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MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) - There are more good schools than bad. Close on a half Russians are firm on that point, says a recent opinion probe. The Moscow-based Public Opinion foundation offered its returns on its official website today.

45 per cent of respondents say there are far more good schools than bad in their places of residence. 20 per cent are of a contrasting opinion.

However, 42 per cent say there were more good schools in the Soviet years than now. A mere 18 per cent think otherwise. Another 13 per cent say the number of fine schools has stayed unchanged.

What does it take to make a school good? was one of the questions. Good tuition, say 41 per cent. Sophisticated curricula, say 21 per cent. Technical equipment and comfort come third with 19 per cent.

Teacher-student friendliness, which accounts for a beneficial psychological climate, has won a mere 9 per cent. Next come order and discipline, 6 per cent; free tuition, 5 per cent; and hobby circles, 4 per cent.

Some respondents mention teachers' good earnings, student uniforms, an absence of social barriers between pupils, and reliable security. "A good school is a private school," say 1 per cent of pollees.

A bad school has inefficient teachers (28%), inadequate equipment (10%), poor tuition (9%), absence of discipline and control of students (7%), loosely organised tuition (5%), a bad psychological climate (4%), absence of extracurricular work (1%), and underpaid teachers (1%).

Overt and covert bribes extorted from pupils' parents is another salient feature of a bad school, say 7 per cent of respondents. "A bad school? That's where kids smoke and take drugs," said 3 per cent. "All schools are bad now," snapped 1 per cent.

National average expenditures to prepare one child for the new academic year, opening September 1, are 3,879 roubles, roughly US$130, the foundation concluded from its probe.

The probe had 1,500 respondents and based in a hundred urban and rural settlements of 44 constituent entities-regions, territories and republics, which represented Russia's every economic and geographic zone.

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