The teaching staff demonstrates this morning from 11:00 am in the center of Brussels. At the center of their demands, 4 issues: class size, teacher evaluation, administrative overload and the future of qualifying education.
Françoise Budo is a teacher in a high school in the Liège region. In recent years, his working conditions have deteriorated sharply. “The mental load and the workload is increasing, the Covid has not helped things because we have to take on more and more administrative tasks“, explains the teacher. “We have more and more colleagues who are falling into burnout, and colleagues who are wondering if they will not leave the ship, some are in the process of doing so.
The heart of the problem is the implementation of the reforms contained in the pact of excellence, which aims to improve the quality of education, to reduce repeating and dropping out. The SETCA trade union organization is asking the government to abandon the reforms that are leading to job losses and harming support. The unions are also asking for funding for the reforms commensurate with the objectives set.
These reforms follow very quickly. Teachers have neither the time nor the means to grasp them. They fear for the quality of education. This Tuesday’s action precedes the next demonstration scheduled in the streets of Namur, on October 13th.
