The two representative federations in pre-university education accuse that the ministry humiliated the teachers, on Monday, June 22, 2026, at the first test of the 2026 National Assessment, “holding them hostage” even for eight hours because they could not load the papers into the IT platform.
UPDATE Marius Nistor, president of the Spiru Haret Education Federation, accuses the Ministry of Education, in an intervention for “The Truth”that “it’s pretending to rain”trying to minimize the problems that teachers encounter with the IT platform.
“The computer platform has been blocked, and the teachers are forced to stay in the school units, in the exam centers. The teachers give “refresh” constantly and fail to upload the papers. The Ministry of Education pretends it’s raining and lies to us saying that this is just an isolated problem, that there are only a few cases, but we receive complaints from teachers in all counties. The teachers are still in the centers and encountering the problems we are pointing out as we speak”reported Marius Nistor.
Nistor also refers to the ban on participating in the National Assessment of teachers who boycotted the simulations at the National Assessment, which he presents as a generalized measure and an act of “revenge” directed against teachers.
“What is happening is a mockery of teachers! And the defiance of the Ministry comes after teachers who boycotted the simulations were banned from participating in the National Assessment. These are methods of revenge against teachers that will also affect students”also stated Marius Nistor, president of the Spiru Haret Education Federation.
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The “Spiru Haret” Federations and the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Education publicly condemn, through a statement, the “generalized chaos and humiliation” to which the teachers from the examination boards were subjected, on Monday, June 22, 2026, at the first test of the National Assessment.
The “Spiru Haret” Federations and the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Education publicly condemn, through a statement, the “generalized chaos and humiliation” to which the teachers from the examination boards were subjected, on Monday, June 22, 2026, at the first test of the National Assessment. “The gross incompetence of those who manage the digital infrastructure of the Ministry of Education and Research has led to major blockages of the platform intended for uploading scanned works. Because of this computer system failure, thousands of teachers were held hostage in educational institutions for up to 8 hours! It is absolutely inadmissible that in an era of digitization, teachers should be put in the situation of sitting for hours in front of screens, continuously giving “refresh” and trying desperately to upload the students’ works, in an environment of extreme stress and physical exhaustion”. accuse the unions.
The teachers also sanction the attitude of the representatives of the ministry, who categorized the deficiencies as “simple interruptions”. “It demonstrates a total disconnect with the reality in schools and an outrageous indifference,” they have further transmitted the unions.
Allegations of abuse: teachers were allegedly prevented from attending exams
The trade union federations also signal that situations of “intolerable abuse” were brought to their attention from the territory, the ministry carrying out a “punishment campaign to which teacher evaluators are subjected”. Specifically, they were received from the counties “numerous reports” that school inspectorates refused “intentional and abusive” the enrollment in the evaluation commissions of some teachers who boycotted the simulation of the national exams in the spring.
“The fact that the Ministry of Education and Research and school inspectorates today exclude and marginalize experienced teachers, guided strictly by criteria of revenge and petty vendettas, is a practice that seriously undermines the quality of the evaluation process”, the unions also specify, accusing a sanction “in secret”.
“Teachers in Romania are neither guinea pigs for the Ministry of Education and Research to test their failed experiments, nor prisoners of service in exam centers, nor victims of the arrogance of temporal leaders”the unions also sent.
