The more than 12,000 interim teachers of the Valencian Community who are eager to know the final adjudication of the place are living this week -and the past ones too- pending the website of the Ministry of Education, awaiting news. On Monday an unofficial list circulated from phone to phone until someone detected the error. There are nerves and a lot of concern because the new school year is just around the corner and there are many teachers who do not know where they will teach, with the personal problems that this entails.
Between the commotion and concern, finally yesterday at noon the Ministry of Education published the list of awards for interim teachers of Early Childhood and Primary Education, the one they expected on Monday and did not arrive due to “technical problems.” Minutes before the publication, the deputy director of teaching staff, José Pascual Hernández, had explained that the technical staff was still trying to resolve the incident by working “at forced marches”. The problem is in the teachers of the FP technical body who, by decree, go to Secondary and who add up to 1,072.
Pascual justified the errors in poor planning by the Government of the Botànic and assured that the computer program should have been renewed three years ago: “In 2020 the ICT General Directorate requested the renewal of the program and the implementation of a new computer tool to be able to implement the news, but from the Ministry it was decided that it was not a priority measure ”, excused Hernández.
However, the explanations do not assuage the anger in the teaching community, which sees too many excuses. The unions ask that the mess that keeps teachers in suspense be resolved as soon as possible.
The CCOO-PV Education Federation warned yesterday that the “chaos” in the allocation of teaching staff places “endangers” the start of the 2023-24 academic year by not guaranteeing coverage of all vacancies “because they have not been attended to correctly the many incidents.
While the person in charge of FP at STEPV, Gemma Martín, pointed out that the teachers “have already exploded” in the face of this situation because, as she explained, “many are worried because they do not know where they will go and that means that they cannot rent a flat and that they do not know if they will have to change their children’s schools due to a possible change of location”.
On Monday afternoon some teachers went to the doors of the building on Avenida Campanar de València to complain, and yesterday morning there were more protests. The Facebook and WhatsApp groups are boiling these days with comments and images of handwritten shopping lists circulating as a mockery of the official ones that do not arrive. And it is that the problems due to the delay are not few: on September 1, teachers have to be at their jobs and for many that will mean traveling from Valencia to Albatera, or from Morella to Torrevieja, to give just a few examples.
“When the lists came out I saw that Rafal had touched me, who is in Vega Baja, and I started looking for a flat at one in the morning. I made an appointment to go see him and took two days off, and when I came back, I started getting messages about the awards. In the end I lost my apartment”, explains Amparo, who has been acting for four years.
Pending is also Rafa, who awaits the Secondary school awards, which at the close of this edition were not yet published. “The problem is now going to look for a rental wherever we have to, with all the problems that exist with renting today. We are not going to have options and we will have to pay for a hostel out of pocket for the first few days until we find accommodation”, predicts the professor.
The situation creates harm for teachers that, in the opinion of UGT-PV, the Valencian Administration must assume. The union assures that this is a “very serious management crisis”, as it also occurs a few days before the start of the course and that the coincidence almost in time with the awards of September glimpse a collapse at the start of the course. “Resolving the crisis is the priority, that the system works, but if the award continues to be wrong, you have to go to court,” they point out from the union. Along the same lines, from STPV-Intersindical Valenciana they already advanced on Monday that they will require the Department of Education to respond for the damages to the teachers affected by the “disastrous awards”.