Parents stand behind strikes primary school teachers
Parents support primary school teachers in their strike on October 5. This is evident from a poll by Parents & Education. In it, 83 percent of the parents surveyed indicate that they fully support the strike. Only 3 percent think closing the schools is too difficult.
Parents & Education, a national organization where parents can go with questions about education, held a poll among 1852 parents. The goals that teachers want to achieve with their strike, a better salary and a lower workload, support the parents. In particular, the workload is a good reason for almost 90 percent of parents to strike. More than three-quarters of the parents surveyed think that salary is a good motivation, although they do not think this is a good reason to close school.
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Parents notice the workload at school. “They see, for example, that teachers do not have time to provide extra support with reading,” says Petra Hietbrink, information point employee at Parents & Education. "They then call us and ask if they should arrange this themselves." Her colleague Marieke Boon says that parents are concerned whether there is a teacher in front of the class because there are not enough substitutes.
Parents allow teachers to strike more if necessary. 71 percent of parents indicate in the poll that they will support other strikes and closures of the school. One fifth notes that extra staking is good, but thinks it is unfair that children cannot go to school. 8 percent do not think follow-up actions are necessary and the schools are closing down too heavy a means.
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61 percent of parents are affected by the strike, but do not consider this to be a real problem. Not even when it involves costs or extra organization for themselves. Most of the parents were informed of the strike in time. The school where Hietbrink is on the participation council has called on parents in a newsletter to go to the principal if they could not arrange childcare. “I recently asked about it, but nobody had used it,” says Hietbrink.
Op the Facebook page of AOb one parent reports that she 'stands behind the teachers very hard' and even wants to come to The Hague with her daughter to personally support the teachers and masters. Parents & Education also supports the campaign, on the condition that the provision of information to parents must be good. Boon: “Parents want to invest in better education and arrange childcare, but they have to know in time. That's what happened in this campaign. ”
