An assertion of Minister Daniel David, related to the work schedule of teachers in pre -university education, caused waves of comments on social networks. Just a few days before the unions had reacted on the topic of an alleged initiative to increase the didactic norm.
Minister Education said would like teachers to stay longer in school: Archive
At the end of May, the Federation of Free Education Unions, the Federation of Education Unions “Spiru Haret” and the National Trade Union Federation “Alma Mater” reported in a common statement that they oppose the intention of the working group from the Cotroceni Palace to increase the teacher norm. Sources from the trade union environment revealed that in the discussion it would be to increase by one third of the didactic norm which is between 18-24 hours.
“We believe that such a measure is not only inappropriate, but also deeply unfair, with serious consequences on the quality of the educational act, the mental health of the teachers and the future of Romanian education ”the representatives of the three unions reported.
A few days away, invited to Vlogcast Friendly Fire, the Minister of Education and Research, Daniel David, managed to upset the teachers, this time with a reference to the time he would like to spend in school.
“The salaries are very low, the bureaucracy is huge”
Minister Daniel David said that the status of the teacher should be rethought, and this involves the remuneration, according to certain performance indicators. “The salaries are very low, the bureaucracy is huge”, said the minister, specifying that the beginners in education receive a salary below the average salary level and giving justice to the union leaders who pose the problem of numerous tasks, outside the chair, which the teachers receive. Low wages are, in fact, one of the reasons why the best university education graduates do not opt for a career as a professor in the pre -university system, so in the coming years the system will face a crisis of physics and chemistry, explained the minister.
“In addition to the fact that you have this problem related to the salary, from the teacher you expect to be a computer scientist, and accountant, and secretary … because they make the files for social scholarships, they do not hire their IT-ist school units ”, added the minister. After listing the tasks that the teachers have, the minister said it is necessary to change the status of the teachers, but that this change “It comes in the package and with responsibilities.”
“In other words, my message is this: yes, the status of the teacher, including by salary, must be changed, but that comes with new responsibilities. That means I want to stay longer in school. If you are paid for eight hours, stay eight hours in school, not just the hours you have to teach, because if you stay in school you can create educational environments and interaction with children is different ”said the minister. Where there are spaces that can be made to teachers available, these spaces could be used by teachers to prepare lessons, and where they do not exist, teachers can do this in the library, the minister suggested. For payroll, on the other hand, performance indicators would be taken into account, teachers with good results are to be additionally remunerated.
“I said something else: I said that depending on the performance indicators it could increase the differentiated income. By performance I also understand inclusion in the area you are talking about-that you take the child from the abandonment area and take him to a 5 or 6, so that he does not stay outside the school. So also of inclusion, and progress – that you took it from 6 and you took it to 8, and excellence – that you had not know how many Olympians. And depending on these indicators, over the minimum wage, those who are dedicated, that we do not do them, to be able to win more. And then you can ask the teachers things ”, said the minister.
But the teachers in the pre -university system disturbed the reference to the eight hours to spend daily in school, the reactions appearing in the online environment, including on the groups dedicated to teachers, days in a row.
“We are paid for the job we do, or are we paid at the time, as in the factory?”
Among those who commented in the online environment is a former Minister of Education. “Not all teachers teach in full time or at the same time interval. A teacher can have 4-6 hours of course in a day, and sometimes they are scheduled in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon. How do we justify the state” for the rest “, if there are no programmed students?” is the message of former minister Liviu Marian Pop.
“To ask the problem just that now when so many companies choose to work online precisely to not consume heat, spaces, etc., noting that it is much more efficient, it seems bad, witch hunt.”commented another Internet use.
“The road from home to work and vice versa or between schools are not considered time to work? I had 6-7 hours with a break, plus about 80 minutes back every day. I propose that those who are tormenting the teachers’ time to see on their way. In private or other institutions you have at a certain time lunch break. We eat in 10 minutes, on the run, we drink a glass of water, we reach the hour and the student must finish his meal, especially if the order came from KFC ”, It’s another comment.
Another teacher shows their fear that they will be targeted by other measures: “We are quiet! We are cutting the food allowance, so we will not eat. I am glad that they do not cut the special pensions. So without holiday vouchers, without food allowance, they will find something and …. we remove the country from the crisis.
Another teacher raised, in a few words, a real problem of the Romanian education system: “In which of the five schools?”, Asked the teacher, with reference to the fact that many teachers teach in two, three and even more schools, his comment receiving colleagues’ appreciation.
On the online, the idea of being able to prepare in the school unit belonging to the didactic process were gathered online. “Honestly, I would prefer to stay 8 hours at school, to complete everything and when I went home to be free. Schools to arrange their logistics and stay at school. It would be a very good thing. Abroad the teachers are a normal program, like all the other professions. He was leaving. wrote another teacher.
There was also true debates on the topic, asking the question if the time spent in school is finally paid or what the teacher manages to send the student to the classroom. “When an installer comes to mount a power plant works for 3 hours. And receive over 1,000 lei. We pay his job, not time, right? We are paid for the job we do, or are we paid at the time, as in the factory? That I do not understand this ”was expressed another opinion, immediately contradicted by another user of the Internet who pointed out that, on the same principle, the specialists from other teachers could request to stay less at work.
“I also worked in private and in education. When you are a teacher (me, at least) you work until 2-3 at night, correcting, making teaching material and records. You work a few hours to make a file, and the children solve it in 10 minutes. You always have to be prepared with interesting materials, keep them concerned and careful. It’s incredible work. I do not even mention the “papers” that you have to prepare for all kinds of relaxes who think you have nothing to do. At private, you work 8 hours and then don’t hurt your head. Come and try to teach at least one day and then emit “opinions”, An comment was added.
“There is no washer factory”
A university professor has revealed in a post that is not eight hours a day at college, because “There is no washer factory, and the Minister of Education, although after the last statements it seems to be, should not be the accounting master at the tail of the assembly line.”
“Personally, I was a little tired of the nerocia of the accountants-with any-chip and the hyperbirocracy that counts our minutes. Of the reports of reports and paperwork with which we tend to lose, really, more time than (win) by preparing those hours. The hours in which, actually, teach, lead seminars, exams, correct works, guide students’ work are undoubtedly and important. But, you just have to say what you want, I say it clearly and thoroughly, much more true are the hours you read, you fits, you think. And no day of my life has passed, since 18 years old (including all Saturdays and Sundays and all the imaginable holidays) in which I do not work, read, write, think, learn a few minutes, either for student, or then for my work and field of research ”, wrote the teacher. The teacher completes the confession by saying that he resumed the connection with his students who were preparing their license work just two hours after a difficult surgery, and this did not do not from generosity or a sacrifice spirit, “But because I could never.”
“I work fixed in the place and in the field that best suits me ‘in the world’. It’s a rare thing and a cosmic luck to live and say that. But I am tired of being humiliated, viewed from above, checked for small money as if I were the Belfer and the profiteer of the world. He offends me professionally and personally the idea of Mr. Daniel David regarding the eight hours. I do not realize how this can come from a teacher and from a psychologist, from the rector (for now self-help) of my ‘my’ and from a man who works in a faculty with an important pedagogical component. I am by no means alone, I have nothing special. Hundreds, thousands of people are the same in this country. Not only in my name I wrote the above things – or yes, on my behalf the same as in the name of any honest man who works in the system and that Romania, the decision makers, the politicians and, here, Mr. Rector and Mr. Minister, you play with so much ease, with contempt and with Damf, from the lip. And what hurts even terrifying is that not everyone else, but you will not understand what badness you do when you throw such ideas on your mouth, from the paste or keyboard ”, the teacher wrote.
