The authorities denied the ban on the enrollment of children without registration – RBC

Students of a Moscow school

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The Supreme Court on Monday began its consideration of complaints of human rights activists and migrant families whose children without schools refuse to accept registration documents.

Statements in the sun turned the citizen of Syria, and Nasser Kavthar native of Uzbekistan Kurbanov Nurbek and NGO “Civil Assistance”, specializing in assistance to refugees and displaced persons.

In the court the applicants are asked to recognize the illegal situation “Procedure for admission of citizens to education” in secondary schools, which was approved by order of the Ministry of Education №32 from January 22, 2014. The plaintiffs argue that it is the basis of this document the school refuse to accept migrant children who do not have temporary registration.

Nasser told at the hearing that the Russian authorities have granted it a temporary shelter. She lives in a rented apartment with her three children. Seniors have Russian citizenship, which is his father. But her youngest daughter, having no citizenship, Moscow schools refuse to take training in first class, explaining his decision by saying that it does not have a temporary registration.

According to the complaints of the second applicant, Kurbanov, it is with children and his wife lived in Tver, and his two children went to the 8 th and 10 th grades of the local school №34 in Tver. But when the family residence ended in February 2015, the director of the school deducted his children. Later, the court found it illegal decision of the management of the school students and restored, but the father still turned in the sun.

«The child, being on the territory of Russia, not only can, but must learn to, – explained his position RBC Chairman Committee “Civil Assistance” Svetlana Gannushkina, which represents the interests of both families. – And the competence of the Ministry of Education does not include the issue of legality of finding their parents in the country ».

According to Gannushkina, the contested order allows school principals to refuse admission to the families of migrants in their children if they do not have a temporary registration and not regulates the situation where migrants are in Russia legally.

In paragraph 9 of this Order contains a list of documents that parents should submit to the educational institution, including a “certificate of registration child’s place of residence or stay on the territory of a fixed or a document containing information on the registration of the child’s place of residence or place of residence in the fixed territory ».

The representatives of the Ministry of Education at the hearing objected to the satisfaction of the claims and insisted that the order does not contradict higher laws and does not violate the rights of migrants.

As explained RBC press officer of the department, in fact, a certificate of registration is necessary only to confirm that the child lives near the school, but his absence should not be cause for rejection.

«Access to general education is provided to all children without exception. The admission to a particular state or municipal educational organization can be denied only because of its lack of availability “, – said the agency, noting that this right is enshrined in the law” On education “. Therefore, no grounds for refusal in the contested act does not contain, said the press officer.

«And if there are no specific school locations, the regional or municipal educational authority must consider the application and to give parents a place to another school “- says an employee department.

The trial will continue on August 27 is expected that the court will decide at the same time.