SANTO DOMINGO.-Defying the hot midday sun, hundreds of teachers picketed the headquarters of the Ministry of Education yesterday to demand the appointment of applicants who passed the Teaching Opposition Contest.
Shouting: “We don’t want stories, we want appointments,” dozens of teachers under the direction of Juan Valdez, director of the Observatory of the Dominican Association of Teachers, complained that Minister Ángel Hernández supposedly chooses the staff at his convenience and refuses to make appointments despite the shortage of teachers in the public education system.
“That is the worst attack against the quality of education, leaving hundreds of public schools without the teachers they need. It is a shame that it is the same Minister of Education who is willing to hire people who did not pass the competition, violating the law that regulates this Ministry of Education,” stated Valdez.
The union leader, speaking on behalf of the conglomerate, said that today they have a shortage of thousands of teachers and children sometimes have to return home at noon because they have no one to teach them classes.
“Actually, the Ministry of Education is committing a serious violation of the Education Law and the teaching statute by trying to recruit by contract and not by appointment and competition more than 18 thousand teachers at the initial level,” Valdez insisted.
Like Valdez, teachers who had passed the Teaching Opposition Competition raised banners demanding appointments.
They claimed that it is a violation and a fault because those teachers passed the competition and putting them aside instead of appointing them is also detrimental to the quality of education because the children of the poor do not have the number of teachers that the system demands. system, as well as quality.
Promise
The Minerd received the teachers’ demands and promised to review the specifications and provide a response next Wednesday.
Valdez announced that they will form a regional commission and review each case to return with the documents that support their claims.
On the occasion of the demonstration, the Minerd area was guarded by police.
Management
— Difficulties
Juan Valdez stated that it is not logical that thousands of teachers are missing, when equally thousands of professionals who passed the Teaching Opposition Contest are unemployed due to inefficiency and a problem of mismanagement by the Ministry of Education.
