As they retire, it becomes increasingly more difficult for positions to be filled. If many of those who have been teaching for 30 years bitterly realize that they were wrong in their dreams and in their profession, who is going to want to get involved in teaching teenagers who believe that Cluny Abbey is named after George Clooney? Who wants to be a teacher in an educational system that has been devastated by pedagogism, bureaucracy and useless tasks? And who wants to be a mathematics teacher, the mother of all the knowledge battles that have been fought the worst in recent years?
There are no math graduates who want to dedicate themselves to teaching. The private company is more grateful. This happens even if the professional has a vocation as a teacher. We have been seeing the warning signs for a long time, but what we hear now sounds like a honk. In the call for applications on the 26th of this month in Catalonia, there are 539 applications for 720 civil servant positions. The shitgogo managers will not be able to say that they were not warned.
We start from a double premise. First, the loss of level in basic knowledge such as mathematics – also in reading comprehension – that has been carried over since primary education. There are twelve-year-old students with a level of eight-year-old children. The proposals of the think tank convened by the Generalitat have come to nothing. And to know what the reinforcement plans announced by the Government will end in and if they will be done.
Second. The low mathematical training of ESO teachers hinders the level of the students. Not everyone can teach this subject well. The less knowledge and the more distant the teacher's vision is regarding mathematics, the worse the learning will be. The fish that bites its tail.
If at least the salary incentive remained, but not even that. In Catalonia, the doctors were lucky enough to achieve a salary increase in this year's payroll before the 12-M call took them away, while the teachers were left looking like payoffs, with the honey of the promise on the lips. And yet, teaching is the only profession that makes all others possible.
