#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #BRAZIL #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Brazil, siga-sc luta fob: Time-activity and electronic point-of-sale: the new nightmare of Santa Catarina teaching (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Teaching work is much more than 'just' teaching classes and involves other

activities, such as studies, annual, quarterly and class planning, preparation of
activities and evaluations, corrections, publication of notes and contents in the
system, monitoring and evaluation of practice pedagogical, etc. The working time
devoted to these tasks is called activity time . The right to this (paid) work
time outside the classroom was a historic achievement of education workers. ----
Whoever makes the laws that regulate the hours of activity, and our working hours
as a whole, does not work in schools. He doesn't know our work demands or the
conditions of our workplaces. The way these people legislate has turned our law
into a nightmare.
The question of time of activity
The activity hour is a period of activities that are complementary to teaching,
which the teacher needs to carry out, without interaction with the students. This
period is provided for in Complementary Law No. 668/2015, in Law No. 16.861/2015
and in Decree No. 1.659/2021.

Ordinance No. 226 of 2022, which details Decree 1,659/2021, establishes the
criteria for organizing and complying with the time-activity for effective
teachers and ACTs of the state network of Santa Catarina. According to the
government, "the objective of the regulation is to provide a greater
qualification to the teaching work, benefiting and positively impacting the
educational work", however, what happens in practice is exactly the opposite.
According to official documents, the activity time may correspond to 1/3 or 2/3
of the teacher's total working day. Thus, a teacher who works 40 hours a week
must complete 800 minutes of activity hours (in the case of 1/3), half of which
will be in the school unit., that is, 400 minutes. A teacher with a 20-hour shift
must complete 400 minutes of activity hours, 200 of which are at school. Below we
replicate the table that appears as an annex to Decree No. 1.659/2021.[1]

QUANTITATIVES OF CLASS HOURS AND ACTIVITY HOURS CORRESPONDING TO THE RESPECTIVE
WORKING DAYS

WEEKLY WORK DAY (1 hour = 60 min.)      MAXIMUM FOR INTERACTION WITH STUDENTS   
COMPOSITION OF THE WORK DAY (TEACHER)  
TIME - ACTIVITY TIME - ACTIVITY COMPLETED AT SCHOOL     TIME-CLASSROOM (45 min)
10 hours (600 min.)     400 min.        200 min.        100 min.        8 (360 min.)
20 hours (1,200 min.)   800 min.        400 min.        200 min.        16 (720 min.)
30 hours (1,800 min.)   1.200 min.      600 min.        300 min.        24 (1.080 min.)
40 hours (2,400 min.)   1.600 min.      800 min.        400 min.        32 (1.440 min.)
The ordinance published by the government establishes the obligation that at
least 50% of the working hours be performed at school , during working hours .
This means that those who work in the afternoon, but not at night, will not be
able to stay after hours, taking advantage of the fact that they are already at
school, to do the activity time. This teacher will have to go another day just to
do his afternoon activity.

The requirement to fulfill an activity hour during the workday forces the teacher
to perform it in the "windows" (vacant period between classes) and, for the
professional who has a full workload, it becomes necessary to return to school on
another day. . For those who have time available, there is an increase in the
cost and time spent on transportation. But most teachers do not have available
periods to return to school to fulfill their time-activity, as they need to be in
the classroom at another school.

In addition, most schools in the state do not offer an adequate structure to
comply with the time-activity. Therefore, in most units we are forced to prepare
or correct activities in the teachers' lounge, a place that is generally
unsuitable for working with concentration, as there are not enough computers and
which serves as a space for rest, coexistence, fraternization and discussion
among workers.

Instead of helping the teaching work, the government's proposal to comply with
the time-activity is impractical in most schools in the state. The government
requires 50% of the time in school, but does not provide adequate conditions.
Therefore, teachers usually take their work home, so they can have space,
silence, computers, chairs and adequate internet connection, but now this only
"alternative" to circumvent the precariousness of our workplaces can lead to
punishment.

And the electronic point problem
As of May, electronic points began to be installed in schools to replace other
forms of registration, such as the traditional point-book. The implementation of
the electronic point-of-service is directly related to the fulfillment of the
time-activity.

With the installation of the electronic point-of-service, the time that the
teacher spends at school is recorded electronically, with no difference between
the attendance record for work in the classroom and the time

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