“I Love My Police”

“I Love My Police” –  pupils in public schools in Rustavi have been instructed to write compositions with this title until the end of November. “We received these instructions from the Rustavi Resource Center by email. Every grade is involved in the process though we do not require the students to write the compositions; it is their right to decide. As you know, children are generally not skilled enough to write compositions. The pupils in lower grades paint pictures on this topic. We will take their compositions and paintings to the resource center,” said Elene Narimannidze, teacher of Civil Development in Rustavi’s Public School # 1.

It is unknown what prize will be given to the winner of the competition for ‘best composition’.
 
“I neither like nor hate police. I feel they should have instructed us to instead write something about the police. Now, that they have given us the title “I Love My Police”, what shall I write? In fact, I do not love the police,” said 11th grader Lado who is not going to write a composition at all.

His classmate explained that the author of the best composition might be free from the diploma exams. “If this is true, I will write a composition where I will praise the police like the eighth miracle of the universe.”

The director of Rustavi Public School # 11 would not confirm the rumor regarding the diploma exams: “It is an ordinary competition where the winner will receive a certificate. Our pupils have information about the police. We took them to the new office of the police station. They saw how the weapon can be taken apart and then re-assembled. So, they have their own position about the police,” said School Director Giorgi Shekiladze.

In private conversations, parents and teachers state that nobody knows which institutions have instructed the schools to assign this kind of homework to their pupils. Nor do they know who insisted on the title “I Love My Police.”

Perhaps  the winning composition will become one more PR victory for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

Manon Bokuchava, Presa.ge