Minister Ben Weyts (N-VA) wil lerarentekort bestrijden met pakket van 10 maatregelen

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  1. 1 & 2 are pretty good.

    3 & 4 are a bit hit or miss, depending on how they want to go about things.

    5 – 8 are bandaid solutions that won’t really do anything. The people who want fulltime jobs struggle to get them for the most part, the others made a deliberate choice to work less (ouderschapsverlof zit vaak in een stelsel waarbij men 4/5 gaat werken i.p.v. enkele weken thuisblijven). Retired people are already in front of classrooms, often for free. Others still help out their old schools (in these cases, being connected to a school for a long time is a benefit. If you have to job hop, the attachment isn’t there…) Working 20% to 30% just means more ‘scrapes’ for others to pick up, those jobs are extremely hard to fill and do not combine well with other ‘solutions’ like asking younger teachers to work fulltime. (A secundary challenge is getting people to work in the big cities, but that has a whole other set of reasons… on top of the generic ones.)

    9 is a complete joke. 10… honestly they shouldn’t. Otherwise we might forget ;-)What they could do is stop putting everything in ‘our’ basket, we’re not parents, we’re teachers. Treat us as such, I’m not a surrogate parent for 25 kids.

  2. None of these measures help with the fact that teachers have to deal with so much unnecessary bullshit. Make the job more attractive by letting teachers actually teach…

  3. Deze maatregelen gaat vijf man en een paardenkop laten overwegen om in het onderwijs te stappen. Daarvan zal er misschien eentje het aandurven om per schooljaar 10 jobkes van 3 weken aan elkaar te rijgen aan gemiddeld 30% tewerkstelling. Na dat eerste jaar zal die ene het ook opgeven wegens administratieve bullshit.

  4. >Wat activering betreft, wil Weyts onder meer de “stille reserve” van jonge leerkrachten zonder volledig lesrooster aansporen om te kiezen voor een voltijdse loopbaan. “Daar is een grote winst te boeken. Het gaat over 4.000 voltijdse equivalenten”, aldus de minister.  

    Eg: ‘force’ people to take a fulltime job instead of chosing between work-life balance and doing 4/5th. How is he going to achieve that? A bounty for people that work fulltime while it’s known that education has to save 100 million? While this could create 4000 FTE, he must know this is purely mathematically? How is someone that now does 4/5th in let’s say Bruges, going to solve the problems if the school doesn’t even have that 1/5th in free hours? Are you going to drag them to Brussels? Does he understand that someone going from 4/5th to 5/5th takes hours in the current school from probably an even younger starter? This measure is flawed in so many ways.

  5. 10 maatregelen, waaronder het typische gepensioneerden en langdurig zieken oproepen…

    Hebt ge geprobeerd om, ik zeg maar iets he Ben, “het financieel aantrekkelijker te maken”

  6. To be honest most of these measures are “good” and needed changes. It’s just that they’re obviously scribbling in the margin; and in no way will ever be sufficient to tackle the present problems.

    Weyts showing he’d perhaps be able to run a department that already runs well and where only minor improvements are needed. But when drastic measures or agile politics are required, he’s completely clueless.

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