According to Heraldos Latest News, today 1.3 Million Children will not go to school, due to differences existing withing the magisterial directives.
Last week, COPEMH ( Mid education teachers guild or "Colegio de Profesores de Educación Media de Honduras") stopped school for half a million children, as a measure to demand the payment of 3,000 teachers. This event was solved after recent COPEMH leader Eulogio Chávez ( Elected president back in dic, 2007) and president Zelaya, signed a payment agreement under the understanding that school would start today.
Today, representatives of the Magisterial Organizations Federation, declared a strike. According to them, Eulogio Chávez is not really pushing demands that represent the whole organization, and the signed treaty should of also resolved the following issues, (Found in La Tribunas version of the situation):
- Submission of Budget and Review of budgeted employment vacancies, that remain vacant.
- The creation of 313 teacher employment openings this year.
- Resolve of the unfulfilled of free school inscriptions.
- Payment of the "Student Bonus" ( The student bonus is a a program created for high achieving primary and high school students that includes transportation and scholarships, acording to the Secretary of Educations web page.
- Payment of gouvernamental debt of around 1,000,000,000 Lempiras ($50,000,00), to Inprema. Imprema (Magisterial institute for retirements and pension), "loaned the government money in order to pay for public worker salaries, amongst them, teacher salaries. The government agreed to pay that completely in three years... so far... apparently, the debt has only gone up. Money that is intended to provide for the needs of retired teachers.)
1,300,000 students aren't going to school. Why?
The biggest problems arise from the lack of vision and wise priorities; Subject of an article we are working on now. Like the subsidizing strategies for public transportation, the problems we are seeing now come from the combination of ancient social problems and current global economic problems. Once again, the games have changed, and the solutions for present problems can no longer come from traditional measures. This is crucial to understand. The answers are there, they are probably simpler than organizing 30,000 teachers on a weekend notice, they are probably better and more synergistic.
Last week, COPEMH ( Mid education teachers guild or "Colegio de Profesores de Educación Media de Honduras") stopped school for half a million children, as a measure to demand the payment of 3,000 teachers. This event was solved after recent COPEMH leader Eulogio Chávez ( Elected president back in dic, 2007) and president Zelaya, signed a payment agreement under the understanding that school would start today.
Today, representatives of the Magisterial Organizations Federation, declared a strike. According to them, Eulogio Chávez is not really pushing demands that represent the whole organization, and the signed treaty should of also resolved the following issues, (Found in La Tribunas version of the situation):
- Submission of Budget and Review of budgeted employment vacancies, that remain vacant.
- The creation of 313 teacher employment openings this year.
- Resolve of the unfulfilled of free school inscriptions.
- Payment of the "Student Bonus" ( The student bonus is a a program created for high achieving primary and high school students that includes transportation and scholarships, acording to the Secretary of Educations web page.
- Payment of gouvernamental debt of around 1,000,000,000 Lempiras ($50,000,00), to Inprema. Imprema (Magisterial institute for retirements and pension), "loaned the government money in order to pay for public worker salaries, amongst them, teacher salaries. The government agreed to pay that completely in three years... so far... apparently, the debt has only gone up. Money that is intended to provide for the needs of retired teachers.)
1,300,000 students aren't going to school. Why?
The biggest problems arise from the lack of vision and wise priorities; Subject of an article we are working on now. Like the subsidizing strategies for public transportation, the problems we are seeing now come from the combination of ancient social problems and current global economic problems. Once again, the games have changed, and the solutions for present problems can no longer come from traditional measures. This is crucial to understand. The answers are there, they are probably simpler than organizing 30,000 teachers on a weekend notice, they are probably better and more synergistic.
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