The Minister of Education, Daniel David, acknowledges that it is very difficult to confirm if the school year will start on the date stipulated, on September 8, given the continuous protests of the teachers.
Daniel David cannot say with certainty if the school year will start on time: Mediafax
Asked on B1 TV if the school starts on time, the Minister of Education responded sharply: “Very difficult to tell you, honestly and directly said, but my message was, for the people in the system, that These measures are crisis measuresnot reform. We do not like it, I do not want them, you realize that I would not have wanted the minister to be the minister of austerity and the one who must implement them ”.
Daniel David stressed that the measures adopted by the Government have a temporary character and that they do not represent a reform strategy, but a reaction to the difficult budget situation.
Appeal to teachers: “Let’s start school”
The minister transmitted to the teachers and the education personnel not to block the beginning of the school year and to use this moment of dissatisfaction as a basis for constructive solutions.
“Let’s start schoollet’s build on this upset some rational projections in the medium and long term, to see what budget we can have next year, to see what other changes we can bring, to help us and when the fiscal-budgetary measures will show their effects and we stabilize, let us not forget that many of these measures are temporary measures“, Said Daniel David.
Unionists, determined to boycott
However, the dissatisfaction in the system remains strong. Education employees are constantly protesting and threatened with the general strike. The union leaders said they would boycott the beginning of the school year, considering that the messages from the Government do not offer real solutions.
On June 11, the representatives of the unions met with Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan. After discussions, they transmitted that “The prime minister listened to him, but he didn’t seem to hear what they had to say”.
Bolojan in turn insisted that “The measures taken by the Government are based on the possibilities that the budget of Romania currently has and on the realities in the education systemI ”.
According to planning, school year 2025-2026 starts on September 1, and students would return to courses on September 8.
