Verheggen in opinion piece: 'Current education plans are inadequate'
The education plans of the new Rutte III cabinet are inadequate. Additional investments are being made, but the amounts are insufficient to turn the tide AObchairman Liesbeth Verheggen in an opinion piece on Joop.nl. More investment is needed to make education an attractive sector.
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'There is a gaping gap between the investments that Rutte III proudly presented and the needs of education', writes Verheggen in her opinion piece. In the article she wonders whether the 'normal, hard-working Dutchman' that the Rutte III cabinet is focusing on does not have school-age children? 'Does the new coalition believe that these children are not entitled to the best possible education? Is it good for them to be in classes with thirty or more children? That they get math from the English teacher? It appears so.'
De AObchairman believes that you can expect reasonable parties such as the VVD, CDA, D66 and ChristenUnie to first restore what has been destroyed in the public sector after the crisis, before spreading a tax benefit.
She points, among other things, to the enormous willingness to take action in education and warns that the actions will not stop as long as Rutte III does not move. 'That cannot possibly surprise Minister Slob: after a coalition agreement that contains things about the Wilhelmus but nothing about the problem that there are no teachers for the exact subjects or German, he must have an idea of how things are going.'
Read the entire opinion piece: 'The normal, hard-working Dutchman of Rutte III has no school-age children' on Joop.nl
