AOb: 'Teacher shortage is the real problem, not nonsense about indoctrination'
Politics should be concerned about the teacher shortage and not about leftist indoctrination in education. The latter theme is again in the center with the hotline and the profit of the Forum for Democracy (FvD) party. AObchair Liesbeth Verheggen: "It is a problem that politicians think we should have a serious discussion about left-wing indoctrination while doing nothing about the teacher shortage."
Teachers who indoctrinate their students with left-wing ideas. According to FvD, it occurs frequently in education. The party started a hotline to collect all examples. Earlier on VWO student Mats Nelisse from Schiedam also made the news with his Instagram page 'Stop Left Indoctrination NL'. In 2006, the VVD also started the 'Meldpunt Misleading School Books'.
Professional
“We always assume that teachers do their job professionally,” says AObchairman Verheggen. “I have yet to meet the first teacher who wants to indoctrinate his students. Training students to become self-thinking critical citizens, that is what the teacher stands for. Teachers always have to deal with enormous diversity in their classes and with political preferences of parents. Everyone copes well with that, a click line disrupts relationships. ”
I have yet to meet the first teacher who wants to indoctrinate his students
Teacher shortage
According to the AOb it should now mainly be about the problem that teachers face on a daily basis, namely the teacher shortage. “The elections were a week ago. We were March 15 with 40 thousand people on the Malieveld, more than 2600 schools were closed. Politicians should talk about how they are going to tackle the needs in education, ”says Verheggen. “In our view, a teacher shortage is neither left nor right. Neither is a child who is divided among the other groups with his notebook under his arm. Politicians should be ashamed and apologize to all the students who have been sent home today because there is no teacher. That is the problem that politicians must now do something about. ”
