First Justice accuses the government of destroying the educational system

Primero Justicia (PJ) accused this Monday the government of Nicolás Maduro of destroying the educational system, which faces, according to the formation, a serious situation due to the dropout of students and the shortage of teachers.

“The Maduro regime has been destroying the Venezuelan educational system in recent years, without caring that education is a fundamental pillar for the formation of a society,” the organization said in a statement. press release.

He pointed out that today the salary of a Venezuelan educator in the public sector does not exceed the equivalent of 30 dollars per month, an income that is insufficient to cover basic expenses, including food, for which about 106 dollars per month per person are needed. , according to independent estimates.

Low salaries, Primero Justicia continued, forced teachers to “flee or look for other types of income to survive in a country plunged into misery,” where, in his opinion, there must be political will to “rescue” the educational system.

According to estimates from the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), nearly 250,000 teachers are needed to cover the initial, primary and secondary education classrooms that were left without instructors in the last decade.

In October, the Education Ministry launched a plan for the recovery of the sector that includes the voluntary return of retired teachers to the classrooms, as well as keeping registrations open to guarantee the training of young people who are returning to the country from abroad. , among other actions.

Minister Héctor Rodríguez recently indicated that in the state of Miranda nearly 1,500 children have returned, the majority “without identification documents,” who – he expressed – They must go back to class.