2023-06-06 18:10:49
“It’s an idea that is completely unrealizable”says Laetitia Malisoux, the director of the autonomous René Magritte primary school in Schaerbeek. “We are already going to have trouble recruiting Dutch teachers and there we will still have to find someone who is going to have to give another domain in Dutch. So there, we are beyond comprehension.” Moreover, “universities haven’t been training future nursery or primary teachers in Dutch for years, even here in Brussels. They don’t speak Dutch, so it’s impossible to implement unless you’re bilingual yourself because We come from a school, from a bilingual family.”
And even if a teacher were bilingual, he would lose money if he did not have certification recognized by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation to prove it. “So until we say that a primary or nursery teacher who offers and who has the ability to give Dutch lessons does not keep his salary while he is training, we will not have a candidate “, she says.
We might then consider hiring Flemish or Dutch-speaking teachers who exercise or have exercised another profession. But there once more, the director is not convinced. “Hiring Dutch speakers who are not teachers will reduce the number of unfilled positions. But being an experienced teacher who will know how to transmit Dutch to our young students is not given to everyone. It is not for nothing that we go from 3 to 4 years of training”, she says. As for the idea of hiring straight teachers from the north of the country, “It’s possible, yes, but is it the solution, no!”she decides. “Since the school calendars have changed in the French-speaking region, we have already lost Flemish teachers who taught in French-speaking schools since they no longer have holidays at the same time as their own children. And there is also a difference salary, the profession is better paid in Flanders than in Wallonia or in the French-speaking part of Brussels.” Not to mention the teacher shortage that Flanders is also experiencing.
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