The Ministry of Education and teachers' unions meet today in a decisive session to try to close an agreement on working conditions. The official proposals include a progressive budget increase and new positions to reduce temporary employment. However, union representatives consider the measures insufficient and demand concrete commitments, especially regarding the reduction of the weekly teaching hours. If no consensus is reached, mobilizations and strikes could be called.
Educational digitalization: tool or administrative burden? 🤖
While teaching hours are being discussed, technology in the classroom continues its course. Educational management platforms and digital assessment tools require constant teacher training. Without an effective reduction in workload, teachers spend extra time familiarizing themselves with systems that, in theory, should simplify their work. The lack of a digitalization plan that includes training hours within the work schedule generates frustration among the group, who see technology adding tasks without alleviating existing ones.
Ministry proposes new positions; unions ask for old hours 😅
The Ministry offers to create new positions to reduce temporary employment, an idea that sounds good on paper. But the unions, more down-to-earth, ask: what about the class hours we have now? Because a new position doesn't stop the math teacher from still grading exams at eleven at night. In the end, perhaps the only thing that will be reduced is everyone's patience, while students hope the agreement doesn't include homework for them.