KTOEÖS asserted that the statements of the Minister of National Education Çavuşoğlu about teacher unions and teachers’ lesson hours “do not reflect the truth” and said, “We are ready to talk and discuss all problems in education with Çavuşoğlu in front of the public.”
Cyprus Turkish Secondary Education Teachers’ Union (KTOEÖS) announced that it is ready to talk and discuss all problems in education in front of the public.
“ATTACKING TEACHERS’ PERSONAL RIGHTS IS FAR FROM GOOD FAITH”
KTOEÖS, using the expressions “While there are urgent problems to be solved in the education system and in our schools, is an understanding far from goodwill to ignore these problems and attack the personal rights of teachers,” and stated that they are ready to talk about education problems with Minister Çavuşoğlu in front of the public.
In the written statement made by KTOEÖS, some questions were asked and Minister Çavuşoğlu was requested to answer.
“These issues that the Minister of Education tries to devalue and avoid talking about are, in our opinion, very serious issues.”
The following questions were asked to the Minister in the statement, which states that “These issues that the Minister of Education tries to devalue and avoid talking about are so serious that we think they are vital”:
“Mr. Çavuşoğlu, you described the photographs of our schools, which are on the verge of collapse, with cracked columns, and whose roofs are in danger of collapsing, as ‘a few cracked walls’.
Can you say that the safety of students and teachers is not at risk in these schools, which you describe as a few cracked walls?
- Will you make a call so that parents can send their children to these schools with peace of mind?
- Is there a study by the Ministry of Education on the schools you refer to as ‘a few cracked walls’? How many of our schools are in this situation?
- How many of the 13 schools you claim to contribute to education and society were built by the Ministry of Education?
- How many cents did the Ministry of Education contribute to the laboratories built in our schools with European Union projects?
- Does the construction of new schools require leaving the old schools to their fate?
- Is your statement about the repair of our dilapidated schools, ‘School Parents Associations and unions can also undertake the repairs in schools’, is it the words of a Minister of Education? Is it the duty of parent-teacher associations and unions to meet school needs and repair schools?
- You state that 3-4 million TL spent on transformers for schools is ‘very large sums’. Isn’t it the duty of the state to meet them? Do you think that 96 million TL per year for overseas representations and 45 million TL per year for consultants are ‘very large sums’?
- Is the appointment of a culture and education attaché with a salary of 4800 Euros to Gaziantep, where there are 3 students, more important and necessary than meeting the needs of our schools?”