Waaay different from USA!-----Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds

A vast militarization of Russia’s education system is gathering pace in classrooms, where active soldiers train students to handle weapons - Matthew Luxmoore

It is part of a dramatic transformation of Russia’s education system that gained pace after the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 but was supercharged by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022...

• By eighth grade, weapons training—once extracurricular—is now mandatory. 
• Teens are taught army discipline, military history and how to assemble Kalashnikovs and fly drones...