Education: Schools paralyzed, pupils returned back homes
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A high school in Algiers. Photo: Younes Oubaiche
Professors and teachers paralyzed, on Tuesday, the majority of Educational Institutions across the country, as they were forced to return back homes after most of schools refused to open their doors due to the strike, amid deep resentment by pupils’ parents, who accused professors of running behind their personal interests, and exploiting pupils, while figures are still conflicting about the response rate among pupils and syndicates.
Strike rate that was called by seven syndicates, reached more than 75% in Djelfa, where pupils of different phases were laid off staying in schools.
Echorouk visited some school and found that most of them are paralyzed.
National Secretary in charge of Organization and Coordination at the National Union of Education Workers, Kouider Yahiaoui, told Echorouk, that the labor basis was conscious of its fate to raise a number of demands and concerns.
All educational institutions in Msila were paralyzed as well, where many teachers expressed hope the demands that were lifted by the syndicates will find response by the concerned authorities, and the invitation to strike found a broad response in all stages, where it reached more than 40%, while modest rates of the strike were registered in southern Wilayas, which ranged between 10 to 20%, similar to El Oued, Illizi and Tamanrasset, as announced by the Department of Education, while the response rate exceeded, according to UNPEF representatives, 72%.
Syndicates’ Bloc of Education Sector noticed varying responses in Western Wilayas, where rates exceeded 60% in some institutions causing a semi-paralysis of the studies.
In Tlemcen (western Algeria), the response rate reached 63%, especially at the level of institutions outside the city and the response remained differentiated between paralyzed permanently and other institutions that engaged in their work as normal.
In Sidi Bel Abbes (western Algeria), studies stopped at the level of most educational institutions, reaching 60% of the response rate.
In Tipaza, Boumerdes and Blida pupils were forced to return to their homes because of the refusal of teachers to teach them in response to the call of the strike, where representatives of Education Syndicates reported that the response rate reached high levels, amid skepticism by Directorates of Education, which said that the response was very low.
According to the communication cell at the Department of Education in Batna (eastern Algeria), the strike that was called by Education Syndicates did not notice a response at the secondary schools and managers of primary, middle and secondary schools, and for common economic and employees’ services, whereas the weak response in primary education was noticed on Monday, but many of the educational institutions in the primary and middle schools in Oum El Baouaki, noticed a complete paralysis.
