More schools closed tomorrow than in the previous strike
More than a hundred secondary schools have so far indicated that they will be closed on strike day tomorrow. It concerns three times as many secondary schools as during the last strike in March. School boards are also fully supporting the strike and want structural investments.
Picture: Fred van Diem
The willingness to take action in secondary education is striking: among the last strike in March 35 secondary schools were closed. At the time of writing this message, that number was 114 schools and schools are still being added. Strikers can register via the ticket that the AOb on the strike website and let them know if their location has closed.
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Most reports of closed schools come from primary school teachers, supporters and school leaders. More than 3600 locations in this sector will close their doors on November 6. With over a thousand more schools, that number is already considerably higher than at the previous strike when the number was around 2500 closed schools. The schools for special education, sbo and vso are also included in this count.
The counter - for primary and secondary education together - now stands at 3805 schools, which is considerably more than during the previous strike, when a total of about 2600 schools closed.
Continue to pay
At the Eindhoven school group Salto, with 22 primary schools in total, almost all schools will be closed. Angelica Bus, president of the Executive Board, announced this by email last week. The main reason for keeping schools closed is the quality of education, Bus writes. "That's our top priority." The school board supports the strike and continues to pay all strikers.
Get on
Last Friday when the AOb together with the other unions and the employers' organizations PO council and VO council signed the covenant for 460 million euros incidentally and when the strike was called off, there were many angry reactions from the education field among both school boards and education staff. Both want to continue to strike for structural investments to address teacher shortages and reduce workload. On Sunday reported the AOb that chairman Liesbeth Verheggen resigns and the strike continues.
School boards
In Utrecht, the school boards in primary and secondary education let it be known through a press release that they are also disappointed in the agreement reached. They still support the strike. The school boards were represented in the consultation on the covenant with Minister Arie Slob by the employers Primary and Secondary Education Council. They call the one-off investment from the agreement without prospect of long-term improvements 'incomprehensible' and argue for structural means. 'Offering a long-term perspective is what our employees and schools are entitled to. After all, we work very hard to provide our children with quality education. That requires recognition. '
Election Programs
And more school boards are stirring. For example, board chairman Jeroen Goes of the public school group Fluvium started a statement that more and more administrators are supporting. “In the statement we argue for structural investments and we ask politicians to support this. Who will include these structural investments in their election program, ”Goes asks. “I hope it creates a connection. We have to continue. ” Until now, ten school boards from different corners of the world have supported the statement. "But," says the president of the board, "while we are on the phone, I see more signatures appear."
