Parents of 9-year-old student Alisa Teplyakova demanded an investigation of what is happening at the psychology department of Moscow State University

The parents of Alisa Teplyakova, a 9-year-old student of the psychology department of Moscow State University, posted in LJ an open letter addressed to the controlling structures in education. They outlined their version of the earlier conflict between the girl’s father and faculty staff and complained about the unprecedented harassment of their family by Moscow State University.

Parents write that there were no answers to a number of their appeals to the psychology department of Moscow State University with requests regarding the format of Alice’s training. Also, teachers and faculty staff refused to meet with them to discuss the situation with Alice.

Also, according to the Teplyakovs, the faculty has published personal data of the child and false information about him and his family in the media many times without obtaining consent. In addition, Internet users posing as faculty and admissions officers posted insults at the child and his family.

Alisa’s exams, her parents say, “were held in a format that differed from the approved work program for the worse”, no consultations were held before the exam, and the assessment criteria were not announced to either the child or the parents. Despite the categorical disagreement of the parents, a combination of written and oral forms was chosen as the exam format.

After the exam, “the child was illegally detained at the faculty from 3:40 pm to 4:40 pm,” the letter said. All this time, the child’s father asked for Alice to be returned to him, to stop illegally holding her and to stop the child’s abuse.

“We ask the regulatory authorities, including Rosobrnadzor, Rospotrebnadzor, Roskomnadzor, as well as the children’s rights ombudsmen in Moscow and Russia and law enforcement agencies, to intervene in this situation, to give a legal assessment of the actions of the staff of the psychology department of Moscow State University, to bring officials to the statutory responsibility and protect the rights of a minor “, – conclude the Teplyakovs.

Recall that the prodigy Alisa Teplyakova passed the exam at the age of eight and entered the paid department of the psychology department of Moscow State University. The media reported last week that her father Yevgeny Teplyakov arranged a fight in the building of the Faculty of Psychology, where the students were taking the exam.

The author of textbooks and textbooks on the history of Russia, a teacher at Moscow school No. 1543, Leonid Katsva, believes that “this whole story smells very bad.” “This does not mean that the girl passed the USE – she could memorize some things in several subjects for a minimum score, if she really had such a memory. I saw how she reads – quickly, but apparently does not understand the general meaning of the text, ”the teacher said. He expressed the point of view that the head of the Teplyakov family “trained children precisely to read speed.” Katsva called Alisa Teplyakova an “instrument” in the hands of her father: “To some extent, she can even be considered a victim.”