In the capital of Poland, Warsaw, there is a mass protest of Polish teachers who are demanding a pay rise. This is reported by a correspondent of RIA Novosti.
The correspondent reports that on the first day of the school year, Polish teachers took part in a large-scale protest at the Ministry of National Education in Warsaw. The rally was organised by the “Union of Polish Teachers” to the call of which several thousand teachers from the Polish capital and other regions of the Republic responded at the building of the institution on Szucha Street.
The main demand of the demonstrators was an increase in the salaries of teachers in Poland. Among other professions in the country, the monetary funding of teachers is the lowest in the Republic.
The protesters held placards and banners that read “Teachers are poor because (ruling party chairman Jaroslaw – ed.) Kaczynski has no children,” “Where is our money?”, “A hungry teacher will not teach anything.
“We have record high inflation and record low salaries in education. Today, the salary of a beginning teacher is only 90 zlotys above the minimum wage, teaching and working conditions are deteriorating, there are not enough teachers, and it will get worse, because the current teachers are getting older,” states Arkadiusz Boron, head of the Malopolskie Voivodeship branch of the Union of Polish Teachers.
Arkadiusz Boron said that Poland currently needs 18 thousand teachers. According to him, such a deplorable situation with teachers has never happened before in the Republic.
“We cannot stop talking about the problems of education. It has never been this bad before. Teachers are leaving the profession, young people are not coming. There is a real concern that in September the curriculum will not be implemented in many Polish schools because there will be no one to teach,” the leader of the “Union of Polish Teachers” summed up.
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