1 Name: Sigi-san : 2013-04-02 08:48 ID:pf4u27fa [Del]
Teacher lockout leaves children at a loose end..
Teachers and the local government association have reached an impasse in their negotiations over new working hours, leading to speculation that the government will have to intervene.
Around 69,000 teachers have been prevented from showing up to work today because their collective bargaining agreement expired on Sunday and a new one has not been reached.
The lockout will affect almost 900,000 children and adults who are taught by teachers whose working conditions are outlined in the agreement between the teachers union, Danmarks Lærerforening (DLF), and the state and the local government association, KL.
Without the new collective bargaining agreement, teachers cannot come into work, throwing families into disarray and leaving hundreds of thousands at a loose end.
Rikke Østergaard is a mother of three in Måløv. Teachers at the school of her two eldest children, aged 12 and 9, are currently locked out, forcing the family to come up with alternative plans for care and education.
"Right now, the boys think it is pretty exciting," Østergaard told The Copenhagen Post. "Today and tomorrow they are with their paternal grandmother and the following two days, my parents will come over and do some lessons with them. Every day during the lockout, they will be doing their school work following a plan that we have developed with them."
Nationwide, there are just over 8,000 teachers who are not employed through the collective bargaining agreement. They must show up at school as normal, but neither they nor substitute teachers are permitted to take over work from teachers who cannot work because of the conflict, however. That leaves many students with a haphazard schedule.
In order to reduce the burden on parents who would have to look after their children in the intervening time, some schools have chosen to restructure their schedules so students are taught in blocks of lessons as far as possible. Many students will be completely without lessons until the conflict is resolved, however, placing enormous pressure on families to find ways to keep their children occupied and supervised during working hours.
Source: http://jyllands-posten.dk/uknews/article5290764.ece
Plus I live in Denmark and I'm not allowed to go to school -.-
