It was a school assignment that raised eyebrows and even caused outrage among parents in St. Petersburg. Fourth-grade students at an elementary school in the northern Russian city were recently tasked by their teacher with writing a “letter to their father on the front line.”
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RFE/RL: ‘Dad, please come home’ – Russian homework assignment raises eyebrows behind the ‘front lines’
Russian schoolchildren stand in a schoolyard on the first day of school in Saint-Petersburg on Sept. 1, 2014, which marks the traditional start of the academic year in Russia and many countries of the former Soviet Union.
