Kyiv education authorities have proposed shortening lessons to 30–40 minutes and limiting in-person classes to primary and ninth-grade students when shelters lack capacity during air raid alerts.
Kyiv’s education department has put forward a set of recommendations that would cut standard school lessons to as little as 30 minutes whenever air raid alerts or shelling force students into shelters. The move comes as frequent warnings and artillery fire across the capital have made conventional timetables impractical.
Under the guidelines, if a school’s shelter cannot accommodate the entire student body, in-person instruction would be reserved for pupils in grades one through four, grade five, and grade nine. All other grades — six through eight and ten through eleven — would follow a hybrid schedule, attending classes physically on some days and studying remotely on others.
Any lesson conducted inside a shelter should not exceed 30 to 40 minutes, and teachers are advised to concentrate on core subjects such as Ukrainian language, mathematics, and history. The compressed format aims to limit children’s exposure to cramped conditions while preserving essential learning.
Officials say the flexible model is intended to safeguard both student safety and academic continuity amid the ongoing disruption.
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