Sorin Costreie admitted to Digi24 that bureaucracy is a major problem for teachers and claims that concrete measures are needed to reduce the time spent on administrative documents. The Minister of Education has proposed a pilot project to compare the results of students from similar schools or classes, some of which are exempt from bureaucracy, to assess the impact on the educational process.
“I admit, this is a big problem and it’s a problem of Romania, of bottomless forms. We, instead of doing things, have to do things to justify what we do,” Sorin Costreie said, Wednesday evening, on Digi24.
The minister explained that one of his priorities is to simplify the work of teachers so that they can focus more on students and less on supporting documents.
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“What can we do for our colleagues? One, let’s debureaucratize. Let’s stop wasting time with all this paperwork. I admit, this is a big problem and it’s a problem of Romania, of bottomless forms. We, instead of doing things, have to do to justify what we do”, declared Sorin Costreie.
In this context, the official is considering conducting an experiment in several educational units, through which the effects of eliminating bureaucracy on school results will be analyzed. The evaluation would compare students from similar schools or from parallel classes of the same institution, under different conditions of administrative organization.
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“We take three schools where we pilot, we remove the bureaucracy for a year and three other similar schools, as similar as possible or in the same school we take parallel classes or things like that. And I would be very curious what the results are. We scan the system at the entrance, so the children at the entrance and at the exit. And I am very curious to see where the children achieve better learning results. Because, ultimately, why do we do all those cards? To justify the teacher’s activity. But the teacher’s activity base where is it?
And there, a subtle thing that any teacher can do from tomorrow is to ask the question why we do this education. Let’s pour them whole, let’s make them know all the capitals of the world, know, know, know or know and understand and think. Because this is where I think we can get if we follow this model of repeating endlessly and memorizing the information”, claimed Sorin Costreie.
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