Education: SNTE calls for changing holidays' calendar
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National Union of Education Workers sent a detailed report to the National Education Ministry, asking it to delay the School Year’s start 2014/2015, until the end of next September, instead of the 7th of the same month, across 16 cities in the south.
“Students annually join the school in degree temperatures that exceed 50 degrees, without the movement of authorities. Syndicate identified in its report a series of imbalances that are caused by the lack of identification for the entry and exit from schools in a “scientific” way, taking into account the aspects of teaching, without neglecting the other aspects, especially the hard climatic conditions in 23 cities, and it comes to the Southern areas, Aures and Saoura. It is not reasonable to unify the start of the school at the national level, because pupils canot enjoy schools, especially young pupils who are unable to join their classes in a temperature that exceeds 50 degrees, especially in the southern areas and in particular in the period of siesta, from midday until the fourth evening in our Sahara, such as the cities of Adrar, Tindouf, Bechar, Ghardaia, Ouergla and other cities that notice a highest peak of temperature in that period, at which time the union called on the Education Ministry to the importance of substantial amendments to the calendar to bring parity between the Southern and Northern cities”.
National Secretary in charge of Organizing the union of the National Education Workers, Kouidri Yahiaoui, told Echorouk, that the SNTE dealt in the same report with the problem of distance between the homes of pupils and their educational institutions in the southern areas, in addition to the lack of air conditioning in almost all educational institutions, both due to the weakness of electric energy to use it, or to the lack of funds that are allocated for the doors for this kind of expenses.
Ministry of National Education, has failed in its management policy and confirms the lack of good perception for the reality of the sector, which will reflect negatively on the academic results in these areas, pointing in the same context, that the ministry considers school start as a purely political vision that is far from the pedagogical view, at a time the ministry asks for addressing the need to speed up the calendar of school holidays and the timing of the region, by taking into account the harsh climatic conditions in the southern cities, where the delay of the school start was suggested to the very last week of September.