The college wanted to sue the student and collect 13 thousand rubles from him — but the young man fought back against the system
Once, Zakhar entered college under a targeted referral — he was preparing to work on a tower crane. Due to health problems, he had to quit his studies, and the college wanted to recover a huge sum from Zakhar, but the guy won the lawsuit.
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It all started in 2022. Zakhar told on TikTok that back then, as a minor, he entered college and together with his mother signed a targeted agreement with the company "Mechanization Department No. 79". After graduation, the guy had to work for two years under the targeted referral, but that didn't bother him.
Problems arose in his second year — Zakhar's curator began to bully him:
«They simply squeezed me out, I ended up in the hospital. I wrote complaints to all authorities: to the Ministry [of Education], to the Committee for Education, to the Minsk City Executive Committee. I even reached a member of the Council of the Republic. It was pointless — all complaints were sent back to the college. And after that, a real war began, they simply hated me».
When Zakhar was enrolled in the third year, his industrial practice was supposed to begin. But it was difficult with it, because the guy started to get dizzy frequently, and with such a problem, working on a tower crane, i.e., at height, is dangerous.
Zakhar told the instructors that he felt unwell, but in response, they simply started letting him leave practice earlier. The guy points out: before practice, he was not sent for a medical examination and was admitted to work simply with a certificate for physical education. The college, however, believes that Zakhar himself should have known about his condition.
As a result, the guy was expelled, explaining that he was allegedly a truant and therefore failed the industrial practice. And then the lawsuits began:
«They filed a claim against me to recover funds for tuition to the local budget. They requested 13,190 Belarusian rubles. We were in court for 2.5 months, and the court decided to send me for a medical commission — this was not at the initiative of the college, but at the initiative of the Leninsky District Court of Minsk».
That medical commission concluded that Zakhar was not suitable for practice, because it was simply dangerous for him. Then the college decided to withdraw the claim.
But Zakhar did not stop at a small victory and filed a lawsuit against the college himself. The guy demanded that the order for his admission to practice and his expulsion itself be declared illegal, and also that the wording about absences in the expulsion papers be changed. Zakhar admits that he sometimes missed practice, but wrote in his explanations that he was dizzy.
In response to his lawsuit, the college hired a lawyer, who decided to return to the same claim for 13,190 rubles. After the first hearings, Zakhar did not hide his emotions on TikTok:
«Aren't you ashamed? You yourselves, when you saw the diagnosis in court, withdrew the claim. And now, when I'm only asking you to correct my documents, because you said it could only be done through court, you hire a lawyer and try to crush me».
Zakhar says that at the court hearings, the lawyer read out his old characteristics, called the guy a truant and a manipulator. Meanwhile, Zakhar himself received a letter from officials stating that they had brought disciplinary action against the deputy director for industrial training and the master of industrial training — college employees who did not check whether he had a medical examination.
On August 19, the trials for the guy finally ended. Zakhar won again: his referral to practice and expulsion were declared illegal, and he won't have to return any money.
«I didn't break, I wasn't scared, I walked this path to the end. Justice exists, and I proved it», — the guy rejoices.