Teachers’ demonstration

It has been a month now since teachers from public schools have been doing demonstrations. Once again the demands revolve around professionalizing and dignifying the teaching career.  However, it is necessary to deem the context in which these demands are being developed, and the point I am trying to make here is the educational reform that the current government wants to carry out, which has not considered the main social actor when talking about the changes that politicians want to implement, teachers.

To what has been said, we need to add the lack of representation teachers have in the working groups that pretend to solve the problems mentioned by professionals from all over the country. Ministry of Education and the Teachers Association are both involved in the working group, but despite this, there are not concrete answers to the demands and changes that thousands of teachers have been asking for in the streets. This situation increases the crisis, since some agreements have been reached without considering teachers, the main protagonists of the process.

This piece if news is highly important to me because of my profession, since every decision will have a direct influence on my future employment. Nevertheless, this should be an important topic for everyone, because it is a relevant topic at national level, given the fact that education is the only way in which people can develop and get to see the world from different perspectives.

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