The Ministry of Education ensures that the start of the school year runs smoothly, seeing as occasional demonstrations in closed schools without teachers, the protests against very large classes or alleged errors in placement.
In total there are 5,878 public teaching institutions to open their doors today to begin classes, aimed at about 1.2 million students, with 300 less this year 1st cycle schools.
In some areas of the country, the closure of the schools and transferring students to other facilities being controversial with demonstrations outside the closed or parents to take students to the schools that are no longer functioning schools.
In the Alentejo region, which this year lost 35 schools, there were protests today in 1st cycle schools in Vila Auburn (Cuba), Vila Nova da Barony (Alvito) and Rio de Mills (Aljustrel) , sources of local authorities and the Teachers’ Union of South Zone (SPZS).
For example, parents and guardians of students at Auburn Village School, which did not open this year, decided that Kids not going to school this week, claiming not to know what school should have taken their children and criticizing the fact that the municipality has no way to transport students.
In other regions of the country where there were closures of schools the guardians opted for another form of protest, and led their children to school 1st cycle of Erada, in Covilha, which was closed.
In the center of the country, in Penacova other problems are:. parents and guardians of students at School 1 Figueira Lorvão education is not being complied with legislation that requires creating smaller classes when there are children with special needs
In Leiria, parents of students in the School of the 1st cycle of Vidigal complain about the lack of security and decided to close the school to lock, as a protest against the fact that the school has only one operating assistant part time.
“The school year is starting well, although either challenge”, today stressed the Minister of Education and Science, stating that this is a process that involves “thousands and thousands of people, many teachers and principals. “
Nuno Crato said that” there is no single injunction “against the closure of schools with suspensive effect and ensured that the school year started normally.
Asked about the challenge of contracted teachers who claim they existed computer errors in your placement, Nuno Crato said he did not know the details of this challenge.
According to the minister, “a universe of 100 thousand and such teachers in the public education system, there is talk of putting a thousand / two thousand teachers that are being made today. “
In many schools, the start of the school year usually held, such as the Secondary Virgilio Ferreira, Lisbon, a group with nearly four thousand students and 300 teachers, where there are only eleven replace sick teachers and the two decided to terminate, according to the director of the group.
Digital Daily / Lusa
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