Education: Teachers’ open-ended strike delays second semester exams

The directors of educational institutions have found themselves in a “delicate” situation after striking teachers refused to organize the second semester exams in the country’s high schools.

“Echorouk” has learnt from well-informed sources that the directorates will be forced to delay the exams until spring or after the next holiday period, in case the striking teachers would have returned to their positions of work by then.

The same sources added that numerous educational establishments which have programmed the second school semester tests should have engaged officially in this endeavour as today Monday, especially in secondary schools across the national territory but the protracted teachers’ work stoppage has totally upset the applecart for the authorities concerned.

The latter, finding themselves in an awkward position due to the unabated strike with its adverse repercussions mostly on the hapless pupils, are now frantically trying to find out remedial and stop-gap solutions, according to the same sources.

The helpless pupils, who are now at a loss in the face of such a never-ending strike movement, have refused to be tested haphazardly on topics not prepared and fully expounded in advance by their respective teachers as proposed by the national education minister herself during a symposium held on 26 February bringing together education managers from the four corners of the country.