Want to hear the justification for my words? Please – this is best evidenced by the fact that, in the view of the “Riga elite”, poverty, inequality, the demographic crisis, and people leaving are not serious problems that threaten the state and the nation.

In personal conversations with them, you sometimes hear surprise – well, what is there to worry about? All over the world, people are leaving the countryside, moving to big cities, from country to country, there is nothing to be done about it! This thinking is very clearly embodied in the “money follows the pupil” principle. The big city schools are the winners. The money does not reach the small schools, especially those in rural regions, and they are doomed to extinction. Another example of misguided and short-sighted policy. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that this is deliberate and purposeful action.