Start of school: teachers unions criticize “chaos”

From the perspective of the teachers’ representatives, the school year that started on Monday in Upper Austria got off to a bumpy start. The lack of staff across Austria means that many locations have to make do with temporary arrangements and have to cancel offers such as language training or other remedial lessons.

In addition, there are also problems with administration this year, which in some cases means that existing teachers cannot teach, says Vienna’s highest teacher representative, the Christian trade unionist Thomas Krebs (FCG). He speaks of “chaos”. The schools in Vienna stayed afloat by sometimes having two to three teacher training students share the leadership of a class and try to continue their training at the same time.

The chairman of the ARGE teachers in the public service union, Paul Kimberger, sees it similarly. Overall, it’s the start of school “very bumpy” gone, he says. Kimberger expects the situation to worsen over the course of the school year.

“Problem in the first flu wave”

While in previous years the education directorates always advertised a few more positions in order to, as experience has shown, create the personnel reserves needed soon after school started, this year the entire available staff is needed to ensure a minimum staffing – especially at compulsory schools (especially primary and secondary schools). but also in other types of schools. “This will be a problem with the first flu wave in autumn at the latest.”

At a press conference in Linz yesterday, the FPÖ cited the shortage of teachers “just the tip of the iceberg” the problems in schools. The education system is also paralyzed by too much bureaucracy and language barriers among the students, said FP education spokesman Hermann Brückl and state party secretary Michael Gruber. The basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic would be “increasingly falling behind” devices.

FPÖ wants “Ban on genders”

Brückl and Gruber called, among other things, for German to be compulsory in schools – including in the schoolyard. In addition, the possibility of taking part in climate demonstrations should be prevented and LGBTQ topics should not be dealt with in schools.

Gruber also spoke out in favor of a shortening of teacher training in the primary sector, a reform of service law and salaries “Ban on genders” in class.

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