What is 'appropriate' education? Teachers and parents can say it
A national standard for basic support for appropriate education must be established as soon as possible. Education minister Dennis Wiersma asks teachers and parents for a proposal. "The AOb likes to pick up that glove”, responds AObdirector Thijs Roovers.
Minister of Education Dennis Wiersma made this request in a letter yesterday Letter to Parliament about appropriate and inclusive education. The AOb has been calling for such a basic standard for years, because now it is not clear to anyone what kind of guidance schools should offer and what pupils and parents can expect from schools, with regional differences and high workload.
home sitters
Meanwhile, the number of home sitters is rising, there are again more pupils in special education than in appropriate education and there is often no appropriate care that helps the student and relieves the teacher.
Now there is only file structure about students
Because there was no shot in the case, stepped the AOb from the meeting last fall with the ministry on appropriate education. “That whole layer of clay under appropriate education is so frustrating,” explains AObdriver Thijs Roovers. “Now there is only a file on students, it takes too long before a child is actually helped.”
Hopefully this is the last waste of public money
While former education minister Arie Slob over two years ago had already agreed that there would be a national standard. BMC consultancy was put to work and came up with a voorstel. “But their advice does not provide any clarity at all about what schools should offer,” says Roovers. “Hopefully, this report is the last waste of public money.”
We have had a big mouth for years and now we have to live up to it
Roovers: “Fortunately, the minister now also sees that.” In the letter to parliament, Wiersma asks parents and teachers to draw up a standard: 'Teachers know better than anyone what it takes to get clarity and what students and parents can expect from them,' the minister writes.
Live up
“For years we have had a big mouth and now we have to live up to it”, Roovers responds. “We hear from our members what is needed to make appropriate education workable, we now have to record that, together with those members and with other representatives of teachers and parents.”
The standard should initially be developed for primary and secondary education.
A few days ago, the AOb together with CNV Education in one letter to the Education Committee to lay the foundations for appropriate education. "This assignment to teachers and parents is a valuable first step," says Roovers.
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