Igor Tur: Yours should always be supported

Teachers are different: those who leave strong knowledge, and those who leave... something more important? We remember school days, we open notebooks, we pull out pens, we have physics today. Specialists of this discipline can be sympathized: their share accounts for educational experiments with the Ebonite wand in the class gaining puberty, which is fraught with almost the same torment with children as in mathematics on the topic of polynomials. What are the numbers and formulas when it is possible to practice verbal balance with these linguistic diamonds while going to school?

My physics teacher was Valery Trofimovich. And I am glad that I graduated from school long before the release of the series “Game of Thrones”, because if it were today – for instantly becoming a cult name, Hodor Trofimych would clearly get on humorous nuts. Well, at 13, I'd love to be asked by a physics teacher to hold the door and not open anyone. Peers would laugh, Trofimych, as usual, smiled good-naturedly, not understanding the depths of hyena laughter in the classroom. Years later we would be ashamed, but who thought of the years ahead?

Valery Trofimovich thought. Children tend to form a pack, wild and merciless. Such a natural sacrifice is not needed to be torn apart, it will determine it from its own, who is weaker, from a not well-developed mind and excessive turbulence of emotions. Usually calm Trofimych, who did not waver even the ebonite gog, I remember, yelling to the red on the wards. I mean, us. As the increase in the air fluctuation rate subsided, he calmly explained: “You children attack the weak in a crowd, but anyone can be in his place, say, at university.” How will it be? And have you been in his place before? We climbed the school hierarchy from dirt to princes - well done, respected. But did you notice how you became one of those people who didn’t want to go to school a few years ago? Oh, Igor? Forget it

Thank you for the second important life lesson for the class: fighting your own is shameful. Each of them, their own class, their own school, their own village, their own district and their own city, is sacred and requires protection with all their might. Theirs is not divided into those who are better or worse, like or dislike, theirs is theirs. Like your mom and dad, like your house, yours is by definition more expensive than the rest. All who are not their own are strangers.

This theory Trofimych supported practice. I repent that instead of homework in physics, the program included watching a football match at the city stadium in Lida. And with the physics teacher himself. He promised that he would not be called to the board tomorrow, but on one condition: we will be sick all 90 minutes - for our own. The deal seemed lucrative. And Trofimych, sipping on the podium from a plastic bottle of kvass, with a shine in his eyes announced to the whole sector: “Now let’s heat up!” Then he commanded the school's consolidated unit: "Come on!" And a platoon of eighth-graders, with an zeal worthy of the Ebonite wand and polynomial put together, squeaked in a breaking voice the endless "Ef-Ka-Li-i-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye

And during the break, the teacher told about the glorious past: in ancient times, the football club (then the "Shoemaker" - in honor of the same factory of legendary sneakers with two stripes) already four times was the champion of the BSSR! Power and strength! Valery Trofimovich, why are you still playing every home game in the stadium? In the first league flew out, the results about nothing..." - "You're talking nonsense, children. They are their own, and theirs must always be supported. And believe that they will succeed.”.

Almost a quarter of a century later, I, who put my roots in the capital, still periodically open the table of the Belarusian Football Championship. And now, finally, FC Lida can return to the elite - cheerfully go among the leaders of the lower division. I remember the head coach as a player with a brilliant vision of the field, the head of the team – the senior in DYUSS, to which every boy (including me) wanted to get into the team. Of the current football players, familiar names are zero. But I still worry about them because they are their own. I believe they will succeed this time.

Igor TUR, journalist of the presidential pool, host of the program “Propaganda” on ONT