It is an insult to ask retired teachers to rejoin
The Venezuelan Human Rights Education-Action Program (Provea) considered it an “insult” that Nicolás Maduro’s government asks retired teachers to return to schools to address the teacher deficit in the country.
“Propose that retirees from education, who already receive ridiculous pensions, to teach classes again is an insult to those who dedicated 20, 25 or more years of their lives to the classrooms“, the NGO wrote on its social network account X.
He indicated that retirees “deserve decent conditions” like the rest of the active education workers, instead of “being forced to return to work.”
Government asks retired teachers to return to teach
The Minister of Education, Héctor Rodríguez, signed a resolution last Tuesday in which retired teachers are invited to return to the classrooms to teach classes again, with the purpose that students have “all their teachers,” according to what he said. , especially in the areas of mathematics, physics and chemistry.
«This resolution determines that All those retired teachers who wish to do so can also return to the classroom.without losing their retirement rights,” said the minister in a video published on Instagram.
Rodríguez pointed out that there are “some difficulties” in covering areas such as mathematics, chemistry and physics, which is why – he maintained – it is necessary to “ensure” that young people “have all their teachers, their entire schedule.”
Likewise, he ordered that all teachers who are on secondment, performing duties in an institution other than their usual one, return to their schools to teach.
“The main task we have is to guarantee quality education, inclusive and for everyone, but the main difficulty in achieving that goal is our own bureaucracy, the functioning of the ministry,” he added.
The “bureaucratic evil” of education in Venezuela:
-Classes between 2 to 3 days a week.
-Schools in structural abandonment.
-School feeding at historic lows.
-Massive desertion due to inequality.
-Starvation wages and pensions based on minimum wage 130 Bs. ($3.51)… https://t.co/iJ99SoUb7p— PROVEA (@_Provea) October 8, 2024
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