The Irkutsk kindergarten 115 teacher was fired for negligent performance of her direct duties

In Irkutsk, after a 6 year old boy escaped from kindergarten No. 115, an internal investigation found the teacher fully at fault and she was fired. Authorities called it a blatant case of negligence and promised extra inspections in preschools to prevent a repeat. Police found the boy 10 minutes later near the road, two kilometers from the city. He had decided to go home on his own.

After the child ran away, an urgent internal investigation was conducted at the kindergarten, during which the teacher was found to be entirely at fault for what happened. In this regard, she was dismissed from her position. Another teacher will now perform her duties.
According to Albina Novikova, acting head of the Department of Education of the administration of the city of Irkutsk, this is a blatant case of a pedagogical worker’s negligent attitude toward the performance of her direct duties. We will conduct urgent inspections in preschool institutions in order to prevent such situations.
The city administration reported that the incident occurred because of the teacher’s negligence. It turned out that the boy left the preschool institution while his group was out for a walk. The teachers noticed the child was missing only when the children returned from outside.

As a reminder, on the afternoon of October 21, kindergarten teachers on Geologov Street informed the police that a child had left Kindergarten No. 115 and had not returned. Detectives, district police officers, and juvenile affairs inspectors were involved in the search for the 6-year-old boy.
Just 10 minutes later, a patrol from the special traffic police unit spotted the missing child near the road, 2 km from the city. The police found that the boy lives outside the regional center and had decided to return home on his own. The found child was handed over to his parents.
Law enforcement officers submitted a formal notice to the education authorities and the kindergarten to eliminate the causes and conditions that contributed to this incident and to prevent such cases in the future.