The article analyzes the legal nature of the All-Russian Verification Works (VPR) as a tool for monitoring the education system and identifies the limits of legality of their implementation from the perspective of administrative and educational law. Based on the analysis of the Federal Law "On Education in the Russian Federation", departmental acts of Rosobrnadzor and emerging law enforcement practice, the author substantiates the existence of a legal paradox: the recommendatory nature of VPR at the federal level transforms into mandatory at the level of school local acts, which creates conditions for administrative pressure on students and their parents. Special attention is paid to the qualification of actions of educational organizations to compel participation in VPR from the perspective of administrative legislation, as well as the child's right to psychological safety. The article offers practical recommendations for internal affairs officers to distinguish between legitimate school requirements and administrative arbitrariness, as well as an algorithm of actions for parents to protect children's rights.

The current stage of development of the national education system is characterized by the intensification of control and evaluation activities, which is due to the desire to ensure the unity of the educational space, objectify the results of education, and increase the competitiveness of graduates. Despite the fact that the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of education declares the priority of protecting the health and human dignity of students, in practice, the assessment process is often associated with latent forms of psychological abuse that provoke stress reactions and the subjective interpretation of a child's academic achievements by a teacher. This contradiction between the legally established guarantees and the actual educational practice indicates a lack of conceptual and methodological development of mechanisms for protecting students' rights to a psychologically comfortable environment in the context of assessment.