There is a growing cooperative movement and in the countryside. In March last year, started to work co-op student's "Youth", based at the school Tarasovskaya Rostov region. It consists of 19 girls from classes IX-X, a teacher of labor, one hundred-engineer lovoy parents. In their free time schoolgirls began the production of confectionery products - biscuits, bagels, pies. Sell ​​them as well for yourself - in a hospital, clinic, in a department store, a movie theater. Here is what the head of the cooperative, a student of class X Larissa Mammadov: "It all started with what we are thinking about where and how to make money on hiking trips. Got the idea to organize a cooperative, the more so because the country already had such an experience. Why does baking pastry? Because of their range in the rural areas are poor, and we are also on the verge of release, and not bad back in school to acquire a profession. Of course, we have a lot of cases. But working in a cooperative teaches not squander time in vain, we feel useful in school, your village. Briefly, we grow. "

Young co-operators is completely independent and therefore carefully think through each step. Already in the first month they decided to take a bank loan (200 rubles). To purchase baskets, thermoses, and it paid off in three weeks. At a general meeting of the guys came to the conclusion that they are not satisfied with the equipment in the school cafeteria, so bought ovens, oven, refrigerator, blender. Part of the money sent to the cooperative creation of the school greenhouses - no need to buy fresh herbs at the market, the products will become cheaper, and higher incomes.

All the more confident start to the opportunities of cooperation and Komsomol committees. Faced with the formalism and red tape in the device pupils to work in the summer, Avtozavodsky district Komsomol, the youth organized Kremenchug cooperative "builder." It consists of high school and vocational school students, teachers and trainers. Komsomol City Committee highlighted the cooperative two thousand rubles, City Council has helped in the acquisition of building materials. For the first three months of the youth cooperative renovated four apartments at the request of the population, thorough - and without a music school - part of the premises in the child's home and the city Palace of Pioneers.

Now, on the basis of "the Builder" created a youth cooperative unification. Self-supporting teams of students will have a variety of services to the public and businesses, develop, and garden plots of land, to produce fitness equipment, open the evening kindergartens to teach children to swim.

The use of cooperative farming yields good results and the organization of scientific and technical creativity of young people in clubs, stations of young technicians. One of the first cooperatives in the country of this kind appeared in Ukraine in Sumy. Cause he has the electronics and is therefore called "Radar". On the bank credit cooperative purchased the materials, tools and equipment. On the work of specialists joined Sumy Branch of Kharkov Polytechnic Institute. Lenin. The co-op created two research laboratories, six production crews, constructed on the basis of different age groups. Leading the team most prepared high school students. As a rule, they are also the authors of development project managers. Compensation of employees, the size of remuneration determined by collective teenagers on the board of the brigade, the coefficient of labor participation of everyone in the general case. Students under the guidance of teachers have already developed several new devices are now starting to manufacture microprocessors, personal computers.

Young people choose co-op. Pupils co-operative movement awakened the slumbering like a child before the initiative. The kids make furniture, footwear, fitness equipment, publish books and reviving forgotten crafts, agricultural products are grown. But it was especially rich in imagination in the service sector. Students create their own childhood and youth café, domestic repair radio equipment, opening night nurseries for cinemas, teach kids foreign languages, clean apartments, etc.

Young people are increasingly choosing this cooperative forms of business, because they saw an opportunity to carry out their wishes and dreams. In one of the Moscow school children sew from parachute silk tents, sports clothing, backpacks. The initiator of the cooperative has become the tourist section. Students not only provided a lightweight, comfortable and beautiful implements, but also by implementing the part of the products have earned the money for future hiking trips. And there are many examples. For most students the impetus for the creation of a cooperative is a desire to make money on the collective needs - for excursions and hiking trips, purchase of equipment for VIA or discos, its cafes, where one can spend their evenings together.

The more attractive to guys cooperative, self-supporting forms? New, smaller over-organization of collective labor, economic independence, a flexible economic mechanism. And the opportunity to receive proper remuneration for work , to help the family earn pocket money. Typically, the teens - members of the cooperative are improving academic performance, vocational training.

There is also a positive side. Recently, in connection with the transition of enterprises to full cost accounting has become more difficult to organize job training, students practice in the workplace. Cooperatives can also take part of the common concerns, providing jobs for the children in accordance with the profile of learning.

In terms of educational and industrial co-op can be most fully and accurately simulate the real activity of the company, working on self-supporting, self-sufficiency and self-financing. After all the guys on their own, based on the production program, determine the need for raw materials, the need for equipment and tools, distributed themselves self-supporting income. Working in co-op, the teenager simply and naturally familiar with such concepts as "self-financing", "cost" is aware of, where are the overhead costs, depreciation, and that such payments to the budget, income tax and real wages. Thus, we introduce the teens to school in the world of the real relations of production, they are forming a new economic thinking, preparing people who can support the radical changes taking place in our country.

However, there is another point of view against which I would like to argue. Speaking about the content of adolescents in a cooperative, they are often accused of a commercial approach, the preference for "profitable" facilities operations. Many teachers still see the work of a teenager just gratuitous, timurovskim. However, calling for altruism, they forget that the veteran or child care home, too, requires funds. And they still have to earn it.

The guys from the cooperative, "Fathers and Sons" on the second day after the tragic events in Armenia, the Republic sent a hundred and warm coats and pillows and one of its own products worth more than a thousand rubles. Student cooperatives in Lviv region to help children affected by the earthquake, listed more than three thousand rubles. A free apartment renovation of veterans? A renovation and equipping of premises sponsored kindergartens and boarding schools? Co-op "Dniester" took the patronage over the children's home № 1 and repaired free of the heating system, conservatory room, decorated it, using the motifs of folk tales, the school has built an aquarium, a fountain. Therefore, working in co-op, I think, is not a hotbed of "greed and the hoarding of bacilli" appear to some, but, rather, a real opportunity to be kind, sympathetic, to bring effective aid to the neighbor.

We all need to understand that the student cooperatives are designed to generate a new man, to bring his modern economic thinking, master's gumption, a socialist enterprise. Let the school will be the camp work and leisure, educational and production teams, their plants, mini-farms, forestry. And even in this series will take its place co-op student, in which a teenager to become a full owner.

Unfortunately, we have the ideal so far away. The recently adopted Law "On Cooperation in Russia" provides that members of cooperatives may be citizens who have attained the age of 16. This greatly reduces the opportunities for participation in the cooperative activity of millions of teenagers. As a result, tens of thousands of children working in co-operatives under the labor agreement, they are not full members, and thus do not participate in the formation of economic policy and the distribution of profits. According to the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR in May 1988 co-operative forms of management, we have used 337 labor unions schoolchildren. However, only 138 of them were officially registered as a cooperative student.

The executive committees of local Soviets of People's Deputies, referring to the existing legislation, in many cases refused to register initiative groups of school charters kooperativoz, and for already established in the budget allocations set in the same size as that for adults. School cooperatives often do not receive loans and credits, their activities are not provided with raw materials and supplies. Do not meet often understand the young co-operators in their schools and institutions of public education.

We believe that it is time to legalize the cooperation of students, specifically defining features of the application to it of the Law "On Cooperation in Russia." It is time, in our opinion, to proceed to the practical creation of the All-Union Association of young co-operators, an idea which was supported by the III Plenum of the Komsomol Central Committee in May 1988 As-sociation could coordinate the activities of student cooperatives, study and disseminate the best experience, protect the rights and interests of youth. She could also carry out sociological and scientific research, develop economic models of various types of cooperatives, to provide them with financial support.

Active development of the student co-operation now takes on special significance as it is in schools formed a new generation of people who laid the modern culture of cooperative thinking.

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