(en) Anarrkismo.net: Chile :Teachers grouped in motion 50/50 call: "No more hits pa 'house" by Solidarity (pt)

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This Tuesday [19 August] a request by the school teachers about the proposal made by the 
government on the status of teachers was conducted, this proposal was rejected strongly by 
the foundation school teachers stressing the interests supporters your address. On the 
other teachers and education workers side are arranged in parallel to the magisterium 
which criticize not represent the majority of the teachers as very few teachers are 
collegial and most are retired teachers, it is in this context that organizations emerge 
based around demands like 50/50 teaching hours and non-teaching. ---- On Friday evening 
August 8, several people mostly professors and teachers were concentrated in cities across 
the country in order to manifest. In some cities one miting was held and others are able 
to march, all these social expressions are part of a movement of education workers, whose 
main claim that promote and teachers may have, what they call The time distribution of 
50/50. Among the most important was the famous slogans "no more hits pa 'house" and 
criticism of mediocre educational reform does not discuss at all the educational reality.

In Santiago Around 500 people participated in this mobilization, where the SUTE, movement 
50/50, the Federation of Education Workers, student teachers and various organizations 
took over the Alameda and marched to the coin, where did a miting speeches of the leaders 
of the organizations that participated. The speeches focused on continuing to promote the 
organization of education workers, criticized the educational reform and put into question 
the role it has played college professors and their closeness to the government.

But what 50/50 means the demand? The current teaching status distributed hourly loads of 
workers as follows; 75% of hours in the classroom (teaching hours) and 25% of hours to 
prepare materials and classes (no class time) are planned. This statute encourages poor 
conditions and having the teachers when planning lessons, preparing materials and meet 
with various stakeholders in the educational community. Giving options to holders and 
managers to distribute non-school hours in the respective areas for leisure and 
recreation. What teacher has not done his teaching duties not in recess or at lunch? 
Demand for the 50/50 proposes that both teaching time and non teaching, it has under 50% 
of the workday. That is, that for every hour of classroom instruction, there is a paid 
teaching hour after hours of rest and recreation.

This political reality that oppresses and exploits the poor teachers created and conflicts 
of various kinds. Psychological problems resulting from stress, to conflict in family life 
by excessive non-teaching tasks to be performed at home. There is less mention that these 
conditions also directly affect the educational process, where no instructional time has 
been regarded less. We can say, however, that no instructional time is essential to plan a 
class relevant materials and training to meet the rest of the school community (parents 
and students) with the aim of promoting a good education. Furthermore, this demand would 
allow a better distribution of work among teachers, allowing and encouraging input to the 
area of education to younger teachers, who often can not find employment stability or 
directly teaching job, by the exploitation of the victims and the teachers who are already 
involved in the educational world.

Improve the reality of teachers and is part of the process of improving the education, 
said the people of Chile in recent years. The popular movement has driven the need for 
changes in the educational system. However it is the duty of the popular movement, 
continue to strengthen their organizations, radicalized the street fighting and study 
centers, in order to go deeper reforms that the new majority intends to carry out, do not 
end with the root problem perpetuating increasingly neoliberal logic in education.

Link relacionado: 
http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/2014/08/20/profesores-agrupados-en-el-movimiento-5050-exigen-no-mas-pega-pa-la-casa/